Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech that lasted nearly nine hours.
After a tumultuous day, an overnight cliffhanger of a vote and a record-breaking speech, Republicans managed to wear down internal resistance and muscle their domestic policy bill through the House.
If members of the House demand changes to the legislation the Senate has passed, the two chambers will have to work out their differences in what could be a prolonged negotiation, potentially killing the effort.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has pushed for a conference committee, in which a panel of lawmakers from both the House and Senate work together to negotiate a version of the bill that will satisfy each chamber.
The House remained frozen in place all day Wednesday as party leaders labored to address the concerns of Republican holdouts who were resisting changes the Senate made to the party’s major policy bill.
The Democrats pressing for a vote to require congressional approval for any further military action against Iran are proposing to narrow the measure to draw maximum support from a divided party.
Robert Garcia, a second-term congressman and former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., prevailed over a more experienced member to take on the high-profile job on one of the House’s most contentious panels.
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