Kevin McCarthy wins House speaker in 15th round of voting
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Republican Kevin McCarthy finally won the House speakership on a 15th ballot late Friday, after tensions erupted on the House floor. He prevailed after a grueling standoff that tested American democracy and the GOP majority’s ability to govern.
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy as of Tuesday morning had yet to gain enough GOP votes for speaker as a small group of conservatives resisted his granting their support.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has just hours left to win over as many as 18 GOP lawmakers as his bid to become the next House speaker is in danger.
US Representative Kevin McCarthy struggled to beat back hard-line conservative opposition and secure enough votes to give him the speakership when the new House of Representatives convenes with a narrow…
Republicans take control of the House on Tuesday. The first vote is to elect a new House speaker but Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., still doesn't have the majority of needed to win the gavel.
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) acknowledged that he did not have the 218 votes needed to get him the speaker’s gavel during a fiery closed-door conference meeting where he sparred with his conservative defectors, who asserted that nothing has changed just ahead of the start of floor…
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new
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After six ballots, California Republican Kevin McCarthy is no closer to his goal of becoming the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives than he was […]
Pressure is building on Republican Kevin McCarthy to determine whether or not he can win over enough fellow Republicans to become House speaker. Thursday is Day 3 of the standoff
Kevin McCarthy is still struggling to convince enough GOP holdouts to support his speakership bid, even after floating concessions in the new Congress.
The Republicans opposing Rep. Kevin McCarthy's bid to become the next House speaker generally have made their mark as part of the GOP's ultra conservative wing.
House Republicans plowed through the second day of the new Congress, with no clear off-ramp from their political chaos over electing leader Kevin McCarthy as the new speaker. A Wednesday
Kevin McCarthy still thinks that he could be the next Speaker of the House as he made a major concession to his opponents. McCarthy is refusing to drop out.
WASHINGTON — House Republicans pondered next moves at a political crossroads Thursday after leader Kevin McCarthy failed over and over to win enough votes from party colleagues to become House speaker, He kept meeting with conservative holdouts and remained determined to persuade enough of them to e…
What started as a political novelty, the first time in 100 years a nominee has not won the House speaker on the first vote, has devolved into a bitter Republican Party feud.
Pressure is building on Kevin McCarthy to determine whether or not he can win over enough fellow Republicans to become House speaker. Thursday is Day 3 of the standoff between
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