By Katharine Jackson, Gram Slattery and David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hardline conservative Republican&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;Jordan's&nbsp;quest to become&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;of the U.S. House of Representatives ended on Friday as his fellow&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;revoked their support following a&nbsp;third,&nbsp;failed&nbsp;vote&nbsp;on the House floor.
That means that the House until at least next week will remain unable to respond to President Joe&nbsp;Biden's request for a $106 billion national-security package including military aid for Ukraine and Israel or take action to stave off a looming Nov. 18 partial government shutdown.
Support for&nbsp;Jordan's&nbsp;candidacy faded over the course of the week. He received 194&nbsp;votes in a&nbsp;third&nbsp;round of balloting on Friday, down from the 200&nbsp;votes he received on Tuesday and well short of the majority he needed to claim the&nbsp;speaker's gavel.
Republicans&nbsp;then&nbsp;voted 112-86 to revoke&nbsp;Jordan's&nbsp;nomination in a closed-door meeting.
"It was an honor to be their&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;designee," Jordan told reporters&nbsp;after&nbsp;the meeting. "We need to come together to figure out who our&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;is going to be. I&rsquo;m going to work as hard as I can to help that individual."
It is not clear who&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;might turn to next.
"We'll have to go back to the drawing board," said Representative Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted as&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;by a small faction of his fellow&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;on Oct. 3.
McCarthy later endorsed Representative Tom Emmer, the No. 3 House Republican. At least four other lawmakers have said they would run for the job, with possibly more to come.
Republicans&nbsp;control the House by a narrow 221-212 majority and can afford few defections on party-line&nbsp;votes, a vulnerability highlighted by the current display of legislative dysfunction.
Aside from McCarthy and Jordan,&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;have also rejected their No. 2, Steve Scalise, who won the nomination last week but&nbsp;dropped out&nbsp;after&nbsp;he was unable to consolidate support.
Lawmakers said they would hear from candidates on Monday evening, with a possible&nbsp;vote&nbsp;on Tuesday. Aside from Emmer, candidates include Kevin Hern, who leads a conservative policy group, and Austin Scott, a low-profile lawmaker who mounted a brief&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;bid&nbsp;last week.
Republicans&nbsp;have already considered and rejected a backup option that would allow the House take up pressing matters, like&nbsp;Biden's aid package or funding for the U.S. government that is due to expire on Nov. 17.
That plan would give more authority to Republican Representative Patrick McHenry, who is filling the&nbsp;speaker's chair on a temporary basis. House Democrats and the White House have said they are open to the idea, but&nbsp;Republicans&nbsp;opted not to pursue it on Thursday.
McHenry himself has not publicly backed the plan. He told reporters on Friday that he hoped to return to his previous&nbsp;post as chair of the Financial Services Committee.
'PROBLEMS WITH THE 2020 ELECTION'
A close ally of Donald Trump, Jordan was a "significant player" in the former president's attempts to overturn&nbsp;Biden's 2020 election win, according to a congressional investigation.
"I think there were all kinds of problems with the 2020 election, and I've been clear about that," he said at a news conference before the&nbsp;vote.
Jordan has built his reputation as a leader of the party's uncompromising right flank. He helped to engineer government shutdowns in 2013 and 2018 and helped to push Republican&nbsp;Speaker&nbsp;John Boehner into retirement in 2015.
His backers said that would make him an effective fighter for conservative policies in a town where Democrats control the Senate and the White House.
But&nbsp;Jordan's&nbsp;bare-knuckle approach seems to have worked against him, as some of his Republican opponents have been outraged by a pressure campaign organized by his supporters that resulted in harassing phone calls and death threats.
Jordan's&nbsp;allies said that should not matter. "All of&nbsp;us&nbsp;in Congress receive death threats. I don't know if that's a news flash for anybody here," Representative Scott Perry said.
Still, 25 Republican lawmakers&nbsp;voted against him in Friday's&nbsp;vote, more than the 20 who&nbsp;voted against him on Tuesday.
Jordan's&nbsp;vote&nbsp;total of 194 was less than McCarthy netted in any of the 15 grueling rounds of voting in January.
Democrats called Jordan a dangerous&nbsp;extremist and unanimously&nbsp;voted against him in all three floor&nbsp;votes.
"Their nominee's vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American people, and he's got the record to prove it," Democratic Representative Katherine Clark said on the House floor.
Jordan's&nbsp;Republican opponents declined to celebrate in the wake of his defeat.
"I'm not feeling too good about any of this," said Representative Mario Diaz-Balart. "The only thing that's positive is that now we can get back to trying to elect the&nbsp;speaker&nbsp;who has the support of the conference."
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(Reporting by David Morgan, Katharine Jackson and Gram Slattery; writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Scott Malone, Chizu Nomiyama, Nick Zieminski, Grant McCool and Jonathan Oatis)

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