{"id":8455,"date":"2023-10-18T09:34:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:34:48","slug":"all-eyes-on-speaker-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/all-eyes-on-speaker-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"All eyes on speaker vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MEGHAN GREBNER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Brownfield Ag Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CEO of the American Soybean Association says the group is monitoring today\u2019s vote to select a new speaker of the U.S. House.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steve Censky tells Brownfield U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio has been working to shore up support as he heads into today\u2019s speaker vote, and the Congressman has told House Ag Committee members and others who represent rural areas that he understands the need for a farm bill. &nbsp;\u201cIf selected, he does have those leadership responsibilities,\u201d he says.&nbsp; \u201cAnd evidently, at least from the media reports, he\u2019s been giving some strong assurances about understanding the need for a farm bill and letting the House Ag committee and others work their process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, Censky says it doesn\u2019t come without some concern. &nbsp;\u201cHe\u2019s voted against every farm bill,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s not been in favor of biofuels policy. He\u2019s been a member and founder of the Freedom Caucus, which has proposed some significant cuts to not only Title I, but crop insurance and other programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he thought the House would have a new speaker by the end of the day, Censky said \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to wager on that.\u201d He says Congressman Jordan does have some momentum.&nbsp; \u201cHe\u2019s been picking up some support over the weekend,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd so, we\u2019ll just have to see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If all Democrats vote against Jordan, which is expected, the Congressman will need 217 votes from Republicans to become House speaker.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEGHAN GREBNER Brownfield Ag Network The CEO of the American Soybean Association says the group is monitoring today\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19,15],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ag","tag-ag","tag-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-Ag-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}