http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/03/who-voted-against-boehner-for-speaker-and-why/For Allen West:
Rep. Louie Gohmert (Texas) votes for ex-Rep. Allen West, who now has 2 votes
Rep. Paul Broun (Ga) votes for outgoing Rep. Allen West (Fla) for Speaker.
Twelve Republicans voted against John Boehner...
For:
Rep. Raul Labrador (1)
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) — libertarian ally of former congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex.), recently stripped of committee assignments by House GOP leadership
Amash (1)
Rep. Tom Massie (R-Ky.) — freshman conservative, favorite of the Club for Growth
Not voting (3)
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) — conservative, frequent critic of Boehner
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) — critic of Boehner’s “Plan B” maneuver on the “fiscal cliff”
Boehner — speaker traditionally does not vote for himself or herself
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/03/john-boehner-speaker-republicans-congress-live1h 55m ago
House Speaker vote: Boehner 220, Pelosi 192, Other 15
The cut-off was 217 and in the end John Boehner only got there thanks to some of the GOP headbangers and arch-conservatives, such as
Michele Bachmann , who had earlier passed on voting and then switched to voting for Boehner.
2h 7m ago
John Boehner is re-elected as speaker
That's it, John Boehner has been re-elected as Speaker for the 113th Congress, a poisoned chalice if ever there was one. We already knew that the GOP caucus was divided. We now know that he nearly got forced to a second ballot, and that there is a small pool of haters in there.
There was another vote against Boehner, and he got to 216, meaning that the clerk returned to the members who hadn't voted, and Boehner got one of those –
, from Marsha Blackburn – to get over the top to 217.
It was close and Boehner didn't avoid a second ballot by much. What would have happened then is anyone's guess, but the vote showed that more than a few of Boehner's critics are all mouth and no trousers.