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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., talks with Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., during the vote for House Speaker on the opening day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP)
GOP members from Georgia are making headlines, even as rounds of voting for U.S. House speaker continued at publication time for this newsletter.
Republican Mike Collins, who billed himself as a Trump supporter and conservative outsider during the 2022 election, will represent Georgia's 10th Congressional District encompassing several counties east of the metro Atlanta area. He voted for McCarthy for speaker on all rounds and hopes his experience as the owner of a trucking company will help him in his new post.
- "You see trucks on the road. You see our industry, but you don't know anything about it," Collins told GPB's Stephen Fowler in an interview on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. "And to be able to bring that insider knowledge into this to Congress, just in that industry alone, will be a big help."
Collins will officially be sworn in once the House elects a speaker.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents Georgia's 14th District in Northwest Georgia, also voted for McCarthy, and expressed her dismay for members who did not.
- "It's not a popularity contest, It's not who we like and who we don't like," Greene told reporters at the Capitol after the first day of failed votes Tuesday. "That is the failure of Republicans. The Republicans are the party of 'never,' and it's always 'never' when they don't like somebody, and that's how we failed the country."
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