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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during the House Oversight Committee impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jim Jordan shakes up race for speaker’s gavel, gives House GOP another hard choice

By Susan Ferrechio, Kerry Picket and Alex Miller - The Washington Times

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La., right, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, left, rush through a basement corridor to a House Republican Conference on Capitol ill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Jockeying for next House speaker in full swing after McCarthy exit; Scalise, Jordan vie for votes

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at right by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., arrives for a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Scalise says cancer has ‘dropped dramatically’ after month of treatment

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at right by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., arrives for a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Scalise returns to the Hill for first time since cancer diagnosis

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - The U.S. Capitol is seen on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is returning to Capitol Hill to try to avert a government shutdown, while House Republicans also consider whether to press forward on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Congress returns to try to prevent a government shutdown while the GOP weighs an impeachment inquiry

By Stephen Groves and Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at right by Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., arrives for a news conference after a meeting of the Republican Conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden wishes GOP leader Steve Scalise a speedy recovery from cancer

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise diagnosed with cancer, promises to continue working

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Time for Biden to ‘get off the sidelines’ and ‘start negotiating,’ House GOP leader says

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to supporters as he celebrates his re-election in Metairie, La., Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

What Republicans must address in the 118th Congress

By Michael McKenna

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, as the House is considering President Joe Biden's $1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McCarthy’s dream of becoming House speaker in disarray: ‘A promotion shouldn’t be failure’s chaser’

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., left, confers with Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., during a news conference about the appropriations process by the majority Democrats to fund the government, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lying in wait: Scalise lurks as McCarthy struggles lock up House Speaker role

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks at an election event, Nov. 9, 2022, in Washington. The results of the midterm election are raising questions about the future of American support for Ukraine. McCarthy warned last month that his party wouldn't support writing a "blank check" for Ukraine if it captured the House majority. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The allegiances of House GOP freshmen quickly tested in leadership races

By Mica Soellner and Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., arrive in Lake Charles, La. In a television interview aired Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, Scalise, the House’s second-ranking Republican, stood by Trump’s lie that Democrat Joe Biden won the White House because of mass voter fraud. (AP Photo/Brett Duke, File)

No. 2 House Republican refuses to say election wasn’t stolen

By Hope Yen - Associated Press

In this file photo, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at left by Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House GOP defends Jan. 6 committee appointees who objected to certifying 2020 Electoral College vote

By Seth McLaughlin and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

In this file photo, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined at left by Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

House Republicans press for answers to origins of COVID-19

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this image from video, then-House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R.La., speaks from Washington, during the first night of the Republican National Convention Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (Courtesy of the Committee on Arrangements for the 2020 Republican National Committee via AP) ** FILE **

Steve Scalise blasts House Dems for ‘hypocrisy’ on Maxine Waters as GOP preps censure resolution

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., listens to an aide as she joins members of the Congressional Black Caucus to await the verdict in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats reject Maxine Waters censure; Republicans stew

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., talks about the border during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 15, 2021, on the coronavirus crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Steve Scalise: Two sets of COVID-19 rules for migrants, citizens

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

House Republican Minority Whip Steve Scalise is shown in this undated file photo. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steve Scalise says GOP would ‘take action’ against Matt Gaetz if DOJ charges Florida congressman

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 28, 2021, photo, former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) **FILE**

Trump’s pitch for campaign donors sparks wariness among GOP officials

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times