Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) failed to garner enough support to become the next speaker of the GOP-led House in the first round of voting on Tuesday.

In a House floor vote that began in the early afternoon, 20 Republicans refused to back Jordan. The C-SPAN tally showed Jordan getting 200 votes, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) getting 212 votes, and “other” getting 20 votes.

A simple majority in the chamber was needed to secure victory.

The House could jump right into another round of voting or choose another way forward after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed as speaker earlier this month. There is a sense of urgency to come to a resolution as a government shutdown is possible by mid-November without a spending deal and members want to respond to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Some have floated giving Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who is serving as speaker pro tempore, expanded powers to get legislative business done in the short term. Others have suggested a consensus candidate with bipartisan support.

Jordan won the GOP nomination for speaker in his second try on Friday after the party’s first nominee, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), dropped out before a House floor vote could happen as he faced opposition from a small group of Republicans.

Jordan has been working to woo a couple dozen Republican holdouts who have been resistant to his candidacy, but failed to lock the support of enough Republicans in the first round of voting. GOP defectors picked other people, including Scalise, McCarthy, and former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).

The GOP holdouts in the first round included: House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger (R-TX) and Reps. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Don Bacon (R-NE), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY), Tony Gonzales (R-TX), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Jenn Kiggans (R-FL), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Mike Lawler (R-NY), John Rutherford (R-FL), Mike Simpson (R-ID), Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Steve Womack (R-AR), John James (R-MI), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), Ken Buck (R-CO), and Victoria Spartz (R-IN).

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Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), who supports Jordan, missed the first vote to attend a funeral. McCarthy and Scalise voted for Jordan. As did Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA), who challenged Jordan for the GOP nomination in the second round.

The House started a new round of voting for speaker two weeks after lawmakers voted to remove McCarthy from the role that he had held since the beginning of the year. In January, McCarthy secured the speaker’s gavel in the 15th round of voting after making concessions to a small group of Republicans, such as restoring the ability of a single member to trigger the process that would lead to such a no-confidence vote.

Citing frustrations with McCarthy’s leadership, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed a “motion to vacate the chair” after the GOP-controlled House passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Gaetz and seven other Republicans joined with Democrats in a 216-210 vote that ousted McCarthy.

Jordan is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He had received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential contest.

This story is developing and will be updated with additional information.

The man long suspected of being behind the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway is expected to reveal details of her death as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

Joran van der Sloot, who was 17 when Holloway went missing on the island nation of Aruba, is expected to plead guilty to attempting to extort money from Holloway’s mother, NBC News reported. Part of that plea agreement requires him to reveal how Holloway died, her family’s attorney, John Q. Kelly, told the outlet.

“It [the plea agreement] was conditioned upon Mr. van der Sloot revealing details of how Natalee died and how her body was disposed of,” Kelly said.

Neither federal prosecutors nor van der Sloot’s attorney have confirmed the plea agreement.

Van der Sloot is accused of extorting money from Holloway’s mother by offering to tell her where her daughter’s body was. The alleged information he provided turned out to be false.

Van der Sloot was extradited to the U.S. earlier this year from Peru, where he was serving 28 years for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores. An additional 18 years was added to his sentence this January for trafficking cocaine while in prison.

At the end of March 2010, two months before he murdered Flores, van der Sloot allegedly contacted a legal representative of Holloway’s mother, Beth. Van der Sloot said he would tell Beth where her daughter’s body was and what led to her death if she paid him $25,000 upfront and an additional $225,000 later. Kelly, the legal representative, went to Aruba to meet with van der Sloot and gave him $100, after which Kelly reported the encounter to the FBI. A sting operation was set up to catch van der Sloot, who accepted a $15,000 wire transfer to his bank account and a cash payment of $10,000, all of which was recorded by undercover investigators.

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In exchange for the money, van der Sloot told Kelly that his father – a judge – buried Holloway’s body in the foundation of a house. When authorities checked his story, they learned the house hadn’t even been built when Holloway disappeared. Van der Sloot eventually emailed Kelly to admit that he lied.

Instead of arresting van der Sloot then, the FBI allowed him to take the $25,000 and leave for Bogotá, Colombia. He wouldn’t be indicted on the charges for another month, and it wouldn’t be until 2014 that the Peruvian government announced van der Sloot would be extradited to the U.S. to face those charges – in 2023.

Holloway’s body has never been found. Van der Sloot was the last person to see her alive, but neither he nor anyone else has been directly charged for her disappearance.