Leader lost a historic 11th round of ballots to be House Speaker on Thursday evening, the longest such battle since 1859.No House Speaker vote has gone on this long in modern US political history, and it's set Republicans' new majority in the chamber off to a rocky start. It took 10 rounds to elect a Speaker in 1859. In 1856, it took former House Speaker Nathaniel Prentice Banks two months and 133 rounds of voting for the House of Representatives to settle on a leader - the longest stretch on record.
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