'It’s too dangerous a time' not to pick new Speaker 'this week': House GOP foreign affairs leader

During Sunday's episode of CNN's State of the Union, United States Representative Mike McCaul (R-TX) called on fellow House Republicans to select a new Speaker "this week," just days after the members ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), The Guardian reports.

Per the report, the chairman of the House foreign affairs committee said "it was important for the House, which cannot pass legislation without a speaker, to reboot 'so that we can get things to the floor', such as a bipartisan resolution condemning the attack by Hamas militants on Israel and action to help with Israel 'replenishing' its Iron Dome anti-missile system."

Referring to his congressional colleagues, McCaul said, "we have got to move quickly, we cannot paralyze democracy, especially when we have hotspots all over the world… and I'm just worried about the messaging this sends."

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Despite the possibility a new Speaker will not be chosen this week, the Texas GOP lawmaker said he believes colleagues are 'ready to unify around one speaker and not have this civil war.'"

He said, "It was not my idea to oust the speaker, I thought it was dangerous…[considering] all the threats that are out there. It's too dangerous a time right now to be playing games with national security. What kind of message are we sending to our adversaries when we cannot govern, when we are dysfunctional, when we don’t even have a speaker of the House? I mean how does Chairman Xi [Jinping] of China look at that when he says democracy doesn't work, how does the Ayatollah [of Iran] look at this, knowing that we cannot function properly?"

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