Job openings data will be released at 11 a.m. … Secretary of State Antony Blinken will outline the U.S.’s global strategy for women's economic security at 11 a.m. … Fed minutes will be released at 2 p.m. WHO’S THE BOSS? NOT McHENRY — Our Eleanor Mueller: Congress started its new session in chaos. Lawmakers were on the floor for nearly six hours straight on their first day back as they voted repeatedly on House speaker — and a majority remained out of reach for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). As House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) described it to reporters off the House floor Tuesday night, it was all “a bit shambolic.” Hallways swarmed with members’ spouses and kids; reporters; Republicans darting to the bathroom; the lost staffers of newly installed lawmakers; and flatbeds stacked with pizzas. Democrats, meanwhile, sat back and enjoyed the show. So what happens now? Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), who voted repeatedly against McCarthy, told reporters "you'll see a lot of different names coming up," though he declined to get into "the personalities or the people" who might lead the chamber instead. Some have floated McHenry — one of McCarthy's top advisers — as an alternative. “That is abuzz right now,” said Financial Services’ Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who told Eleanor that he has discussed that possibility with the North Carolina Republican. “It's a big question,” he added. “Anybody who is reasonable or rational would have to be ready to turn their whole life upside down to do this job or be criticized to death.” But McHenry himself — who once served as chief deputy whip to former House Speaker John Boehner (check out this fun POLITICO read on their relationship back in the day) — says he wants to stick with his committee gavel. Asked if he was interested in the job, he told Eleanor he was “interested in getting Kevin McCarthy over the line to become speaker.” Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) doesn't see McHenry in the role: “He and I are good friends,” but “it's outside of where we are. I don't think it's a third alternative," he said. "What they're after — that we have figured out — is Kevin." X GON’ GIVE IT TO YA — Our Rebecca Kern, Sam, Ruth Reader and Tanya Snyder: “Even before Elon Musk’s dramatic and controversial takeover of Twitter, the restless mogul was pitching the social-media company as his key to realizing a much bigger dream … But building a ‘super-app’ like WeChat is a far more complicated challenge than Twitter, with far more points of conflict with regulators in Washington, California, Brussels and elsewhere. Nothing like it exists yet in the West, and it could create a ‘regulatory nightmare,’ said Caitriona Fitzgerald, the deputy director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit that advocates for privacy reform.”
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