Congress doesn’t have a stranglehold on drama when it comes to electing a speaker. Back in 1998, the Virginia House of Delegates had a tense standoff that lasted several hours. Michael Pope has this look back.
A look back at the 1998 struggle to elect a Speaker of the House in Virginia
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