By Aditi Sangal, Adrienne Vogt, Maureen Chowdhury, Elise Hammond and Tori B. Powell, CNN
From CNN's Kristin Wilson
Four Republican lawmakers voted against a motion to adjourn the House until Thursday. If the House had not adjourned, members would have held another vote for speaker.
These are the lawmakers who opposed adjournment:
The four have voted against Rep. Kevin McCarthy for speaker.
Shortly after reconvening Wednesday night, the House voted to adjourn until noon Thursday — with still no speaker elected.
Through six votes in two days, GOP leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy has not been able to get a majority of votes needed to win the speakership.
He told reporters he did not want another vote Wednesday, saying lawmakers have not yet reached a deal. A group of 20 Republicans has been voting against McCarthy.
The House cannot continue with any other business until a speaker is elected — including swearing in of new members.
Watch the moment:
From CNN's Melanie Zanona
Rep. Chip Roy told Republican leaders he thinks he can get 10 holdouts to come along if these ongoing negotiations pan out, according to GOP sources familiar with the internal discussions, and that there are additional detractors who may be willing to vote present.
Sources said the talks tonight amongst McCarthy allies and holdouts have been the most productive and serious ones to date. In one sign of a breakthrough, a McCarthy-aligned super PAC agreed to not play in open primaries in safe seats — one of the big demands that conservatives had asked for but that McCarthy had resisted up until this point.
Still, even if these negotiations prove successful and 10 lawmakers do flip to McCarthy’s column — far from certain — that doesn’t get McCarthy to 218, so he would still have more work to do.
The House is now voting on a motion to adjourn.
If the motion passes, lawmakers will come back at noon on Thursday.
Watch:
The House is reconvening to potentially vote for a seventh time for speaker.
GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy has been defeated in the last six rounds of votes.
Ahead of the evening session, McCarthy said does not want another vote for speaker tonight.
From CNN's Manu Raju
Rep. Kevin McCarthy does not want another vote for speaker tonight.
The House voted to adjourn until 8 p.m. ET and lawmakers have since been having closed-door discussions.
McCarthy said no deal has been reached yet, but said progress is being made as talks are ongoing. He said those talks should continue, instead of holding a vote.
"I think it’s probably best — let people work through some more. I don’t think vote tonight does any different but I think vote in the future will," he told reporters. McCarthy has already failed six times to win enough votes to secure the speakership.
From Kit Maher
Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania said lawmakers are having "productive" meetings, but voting could stretch into the weekend.
“It could go into the weekend. We hope it doesn’t," Perry said.
“All I can tell you is that we had a productive meeting,” he said after leaving Rep. Tom Emmer’s office with several Republicans.
“There’s a lot to be done in just a little bit of time between now and 8 o'clock,” he added.
Perry said he couldn’t answer if there would be another ballot tonight.
From CNN's Kate Sullivan
GOP Rep. Chip Roy said Thursday evening a group of Republicans are having a “good conversation” about the speakership after House Republicans failed to elect a new leader after six rounds of votes.
“We’re having a good conversation in there,” Roy told reporters after emerging from the room where a group of GOP members are negotiating. Roy is one of the Republicans who did not vote for McCarthy in the last few votes.
“Stay tuned because these conversations continue,” Roy said.
The GOP meeting also included Reps. Scott Perry, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Anna Paulina Luna, Byron Donalds, Jim Jordan and Thomas Massie.
Another concession by McCarthy: A McCarthy-aligned PAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), has agreed to not spend money in open-seat primaries in safe Republican districts.
"CLF has never spent a dollar against a Republican incumbent before and obviously will continue that policy in the future," a statement from CLF President Dan Conston said. In exchange, a conservative organization, Club for Growth, is now backing McCarthy for speaker.
“This agreement on super PAC’s fulfills a major concern we have pressed for. We understand that Leader McCarthy and Members are working on a rules agreement that will meet the principles we have set out previously. Assuming these principles are met, Club for Growth will support Kevin McCarthy for Speaker," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement.
Not having the McCarthy-aligned PAC play in open-seat primaries is something that had been an ask of Roy and other conservatives.
From CNN's Manu Raju
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has no more margin for error with the expectation that four Republicans — Andy Biggs, Chip Roy, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert — are almost certainly immovable in their opposition.
That means he has to somehow convince the rest of the bloc of 20 to change their votes to either “present,” which would lower the voting threshold, or to vote for him.
GOP sources familiar with the matter still believe they are making progress but don’t think McCarthy will get a deal locked in before the 8 p.m. ET vote.