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Pro-crypto lawmaker stays interim US House Speaker as frontrunner loses first round of votingOhio Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican Party's nominee for Speaker, won the support of 200 of his colleagues in an Oct. 17 vote — below the 217 needed to hold the position.

With members of the Republican Party in the majority, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to elect a new Speaker in its first round of voting on Oct. 17.