House Majority Whip Tom Emmer has won the Republican nomination to be the next speaker of the House.
Emmer had led voting all morning as the House GOP conference took multiple votes to determine who would be their nominee to pick up the gavel.
On the 5th vote, Emmer secured a majority, becoming the nominee.
He will only be able to afford four defections from fellow Republicans when the vote eventually goes to the House floor.
This is the third time Republicans have chosen a speaker nominee since the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier this month.
Since then they have tried to elect both Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, but neither were able to secure votes on the House floor, facing significant Republican opposition.
This is the second longest period the House has ever gone without a Speaker. It lacked a Speaker for two months in late 1855 and early 1856