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Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker in the early hours of Saturday morning -- a major victory for the California Republican that elevates him to a ...

Part of the strategy to secure McCarthy the speakership was to get some of the holdouts to vote “present,” according to several sources. On the 12th round of voting, the final tally was 213 for McCarthy, four for Rep. The final hours before McCarthy was elected were punctuated with chaotic and tense moments on the House floor with lawmakers on the edge of their seats waiting to see how a handful of remaining holdouts would vote. The 14 votes who flipped in favor of McCarthy on the 12th ballot are: Reps. The deal-making McCarthy engaged in also appears poised to leave him with a weaker hand to play in his new position of authority, though the California Republican has disputed that notion. To secure the gavel, McCarthy had to chip away at opposition from a bloc of hardline conservatives in what became the longest contest in 164 years.

U.S. Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and ...

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In a dramatic and contentious four days of voting, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy cobbled together just enough support to win the speakership on the 15th ...

Kevin McCarthy lost his bid for speaker of the House for a 13th time. Tonight, following the Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance, the next order of business is for the House to vote on the 14th Manual Roll Call Vote on the election of the Speaker of the House. After missing the first House speaker vote of the day to undergo hand surgery, Maryland Democratic Rep. And he pushed back on the notion that the fractured House GOP may not be ready to govern. The drop in Jeffries' number was due to the unexpected absence of Maryland Democratic Rep. He told Fox he's "running out of stuff to ask for" and called McCarthy the "Speaker-Designate." Andy Harris of Maryland, putting McCarthy the closest he has been so far to clinching the gavel. Freshman Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., who cannot be sworn in until a speaker is chosen, told CNBC that he wakes up in the middle of the night to say: "Jeffries." Kevin McCarthy of California was elected House speaker in a dramatic and historic 15th vote after midnight, ending four days of bitter intraparty battles among Republicans and putting to rest the question of whether McCarthy could ever unite his divided party with its razor-thin majority. Wesley Hunt of Texas both arrived during the vote and cast ballots for McCarthy to cheers from the caucus. In a tense showdown on the House floor in the middle of the 14th failed vote at around 11 p.m. With 222 Republicans in the House, he could only afford to lose a handful of votes.

After four days of grueling ballots, McCarthy flipped more than a dozen conservative holdouts to become supporters, with the remaining holdouts finally ...

At the core of the emerging deal is the reinstatement of a House rule that would allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to “vacate the chair,” essentially calling a vote to oust the speaker. The agreement McCarthy presented to the holdouts from the Freedom Caucus and others centers around rules changes they have been seeking for months. Capitol Police who were given a standing ovation for protecting lawmakers and the legislative seat of democracy on Jan. But he could also be emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. The result: government shutdowns, standoffs and Boehner’s early retirement when conservatives threatened to oust him. Mike Garcia nominated McCarthy for Friday, he also thanked the U.S. At a Capitol event on Friday, some lawmakers, mostly Democrats, observed a moment of silence and praised officers who helped protect Congress on that day. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which shook the country when a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying the Republican’s 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump may have played a role in swaying the holdouts. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker’s vote dragged through so many rounds of voting. Other wins for the holdouts are more obscure and include provisions in the proposed deal to expand the number of seats available on the House Rules Committee, to mandate 72 hours for bills to be posted before votes and to promise to try for a constitutional amendment that would impose federal limits on the number of terms a person could serve in the House and Senate. Fingers were pointed, words exchanged and violence apparently just averted.

Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor ...

At the core of the emerging deal is the reinstatement of a House rule that would allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to “vacate the chair,” essentially calling a vote to oust the speaker. The agreement McCarthy presented to the holdouts from the Freedom Caucus and others centers around rules changes they have been seeking for months. Capitol Police who were given a standing ovation for protecting lawmakers and the legislative seat of democracy on Jan. But he could also be emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights for the gavel in U.S. The result: government shutdowns, standoffs and Boehner’s early retirement when conservatives threatened to oust him. Mike Garcia nominated McCarthy for Friday, he also thanked the U.S. At a Capitol event on Friday, some lawmakers, mostly Democrats, observed a moment of silence and praised officers who helped protect Congress on that day. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which shook the country when a mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying the Republican’s 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump may have played a role in swaying the holdouts. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker’s vote dragged through so many rounds of voting. Other wins for the holdouts are more obscure and include provisions in the proposed deal to expand the number of seats available on the House Rules Committee, to mandate 72 hours for bills to be posted before votes and to promise to try for a constitutional amendment that would impose federal limits on the number of terms a person could serve in the House and Senate. Fingers were pointed, words exchanged and violence apparently just averted.

The Republican is finally chosen after a week of chaos and angry scenes between colleagues in his own party.

Mr McCarthy opened his acceptance speech joking; "that was easy, eh?" "Maybe it didn't determine the outcome, but that is no way to conduct the people's business. "Two years ago insurrectionists failed to take over the Capitol," Congressman Eric Swalwell wrote on Twitter. "He was with me from the beginning... The Alabama congressman had to be physically restrained by colleagues as he bellowed and jabbed his finger at Mr Gaetz. And I will never give up for you, the American people."