@simsa04
I think this might help.

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#Selection

>The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially, after a general election) or when a speaker dies, resigns or is removed from the position intra-term. At the start of a new Congress, those voting to elect the speaker are representatives-elect, as a speaker must be selected before members are sworn in to office; the House of Representatives cannot organize or take other legislative actions until a speaker is elected.

While they are not sworn into office, they can still vote for a speaker who then swears them in.

It makes about as much sense as the dumpster fire going on now.