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Zinke delivers the final decisive vote. And Rosendale rejects a phone call from President Trump? McCarthy elected Speaker. Here's some of the Montana specific highlights.
Representative-elect Matt Rosendale: "You can send any mouthpiece up here that's willing to go along and push a green button for leadership. And that's not what I was sent up here to do."
Zinke noted that over 90% of the GOP caucus is behind McCarthy, including half of the Freedom Caucus members, Jim Jordan, and former President Donald Trump.