The United States House of Representatives remains without a speaker Thursday after the Republican nominee for the post failed to win enough votes from the full chamber.

Steve Scalise could not get the 217 votes needed to replace ousted speaker Kevin McCarthy as reportedly up to 30 partymates refused to support him.

"I'm withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee," Scalise said following the vote.

Republicans did not announce a plan to resolve the crisis, but they could fall back on hardliner Jim Jordan, chairman of the justice committee, who lost to Scalise in the internal vote, or attempt to invest full speaker powers for a limited period in the lawmaker currently in the job as a caretaker, Patrick McHenry.

Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has called for a "bipartisan governing coalition" in the House, although Republicans have given no sign that they'd ever consider it.