对…的投票在新的国会中选举一名众议院议长作为共和党领袖，这是一个世纪以来的第一次凯文·麦卡锡努力争取多数票来行使木槌。
在选出议长之前，议院不能处理其他事务。但是目前的悬而未决远非有史以来最长的议长投票，那是在1855年和1856年发生的。
据报道，这是最多轮投票的记录历史学家办公室众议院是第34届国会，马萨诸塞州众议员纳撒尼尔·普伦蒂斯·班克斯在经过133轮和大约两个月的投票后才当选为议长。
因为奴隶制和移民的冲突，根据办公室的说法，政治气氛紧张，20多人试图成为议长。
从1855年12月开始，历时两个月，直到班克斯于1856年2月2日当选，当时班克斯是美国和自由土壤党的成员。纽约论坛报酒店1856年2月4日发行宣称班克斯的胜利是“伟大斗争的结束”;共和党的胜利。”
班克斯宣誓就职时40岁，只担任了两年的议长，直到1857年第35届国会，民主党获胜两个房子和参议院。
众议院历史学家办公室指出，这种多轮议长投票和大多数其他情况“发生在内战之前，当时党内分歧比今天民主党和共和党的分裂更加模糊”。
在本周的长时间投票之前，最近一次多轮投票选举议长是在1923年12月，当时第68届国会需要在三天内进行九轮投票，才能选出马萨诸塞州的共和党众议员弗雷德里克·亨廷顿·吉列。
吉列继续说道服务三个任期作为议长。
根据国会研究服务处在1923年的摊牌中，来自较小派系的成员最初拒绝为民主党或共和党候选人投票。
但他们最终在第九轮中让步，“在共和党领导层同意接受这些成员支持的一些程序改革之后。”
When was the longest it took to elect a speaker of the House?
The vote to elect a House speaker in the new Congress is in its second day -- the first time that has happened in a century -- as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struggles to get a majority of votes to wield the gavel.
The House can conduct no other business until a speaker is chosen. But the current limbo is nowhere near the longest-ever speaker vote, which occurred in 1855 and 1856.
The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress, when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks of Massachusetts was only elected speaker after 133 rounds and some two months of voting.
Because of conflict over slavery and immigration, according to the office, the political atmosphere was tense and more than 20 people tried to become speaker.
It took two months, starting in December 1855, until Banks, then a member of the American and Free Soil parties, was elected on Feb. 2, 1856. The New-York Tribune's Feb. 4, 1856, issue proclaimed Banks' victory the "END OF THE GREAT STRUGGLE; TRIUMPH OF THE REPUBLICANS."
Banks, who was 40 years old when he was sworn in, served just one two-year term as speaker until the 35th Congress in 1857, when Democrats won both the House and Senate.
The House historian's office noted that this instance of multiple rounds of speaker voting and most others "occurred before the Civil War, when party divisions were more nebulous" than the Democratic-Republican split today.
Until this week's prolonged voting, the most recent instance of multiple rounds of votes for speaker was in December 1923, when the 68th Congress required nine rounds over three days to elect Republican Rep. Fredrick Huntington Gillett of Massachusetts.
Gillett went on to serve three terms as speaker.
According to the Congressional Research Service, during the 1923 showdown, members from smaller factions initially refused to vote for either the Democratic or Republican candidate.
But they eventually gave in during the ninth round "after the Republican leadership had agreed to accept a number of procedural reforms these Members favored."
