At the beginning of the 119th Congress, the House of Representatives looked like it would repeat the debacle of the 15 rounds of voting it took to make Kevin McCarthy speaker of the House before he would be torpedoed 10 months later for Mike Johnson.
A handful of the loudest rabble rousers in the conservative House Freedom Caucus had abstained in the first roll call for votes. But in the end, after some regrouping and whipping, Mike Johnson would get enough votes to become speaker of the House once again.
