% MONSTROSITIES TO PAY FOR LATER
% ON, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
% >> TODAY MARKS TWO YEARS SINCE
% THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION AT
% THE CAPITOL.
% TO DATE, MORE THAN 950 PEOPLE
% HAVE BEEN CHARGED IN CONNECTION
% WITH THE STORMING OF THE CAPITOL
% AND THE ATTEMPT TO STOP THE
% CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTION.
% ALL 8 OF WISCONSIN'S MEMBERS OF
% THE HOUSE WERE THERE THAT DAY.
% 7 OF THEM INSIDE THE BUILDING.
% THE 8TH MEMBER IS REPUBLICAN
% DEREK VAN ORDEN, WHO WAS NOT IN
% CONGRESS THEN.
% HE ATTENDED THE RALLY OUTSIDE
% THE CAPITOL BUT CLAIMS HE DID
% NOT ENTER THE BUILDING OR
% PARTICIPATE IN THE VIOLENCE THAT
% DAY.
% VAN ORDEN WAS ELECTED THIS FALL
% TO REPRESENT WISCONSIN'S THIRD
% CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
% HOWEVER, HE STILL HASN'T BEEN
% SWORN IN TO OFFICE BECAUSE
% REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO
% AGREE ON WHO TO ELECT AS SPEAKER
% OF THE HOUSE.
% REPUBLICAN KEVIN MCCARTHY HAS
% FAILED IN MORE THAN A DOZEN
% VOTES SINCE TUESDAY WITH A SMALL
% GROUP OF HOLDOUTS PREVENTING HIM
% FROM GETTING A MAJORITY.
% IT'S THE FIRST TIME IN 100 YEARS
% A SPEAKER WASN'T CHOSEN ON THE
% FIRST BALLOT, AND THIS MARKS THE
% MOST VOTES SINCE 1860 WHEN
% 44 VOTES WERE NEEDED.
% THE RECORD, BY THE WAY, WAS SET
% IN 1856, WHEN IT TOOK 133 ROUNDS