Kevin McCarthy Elected House Speaker: Ending a Historic Impasse
by top line House Republicans chose Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the next Speaker of the House in a vote that ran past midnight Saturday morning, …
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McCarthy fails to win House speaker race after 10 rounds of voting, for first time in 163 years
top line Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) failed to win the House speaker’s pick in a 10th round of voting Thursday as a group of holdouts …
He is 15 votes short of the Speaker of the House as the elections head to the second round, for the first time in 100 years
top line Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) failed to secure the 218 votes needed to become House speaker in an initial round of voting Tuesday, marking …