Gaetz

Before McCarthy finally clinched the speakership, there was a near-brawl in the House late Friday as Matt Gaetz delivered a blow denying him on the 14th ...

The House of Representatives started looking like a UFC fight Friday night, when a congressman had to be physically restrained from attacking one of his ...

Other reps tried to thwart an attack by grabbing Rogers by the chin and shoulders ... C-SPAN got shots of Rogers losing it, walking to the row in which Gaetz was sitting and then fully lunging at him. where Kevin McCarthy again failed to get the required number of votes.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy thanked Matt Gaetz, one of his loudest and most vocal opponents, for helping him secure the top spot in the House.

Patty Murray (D-WA) was confirmed as the first female president pro tempore. [Matt Gaetz](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/matt-gaetz) (R-FL) and former President [Donald Trump](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/donald-trump) for helping him secure the speaker's gavel in the early hours of Saturday morning. However, after four days and 15 rounds of voting, the ceremony did not happen until McCarthy was confirmed as speaker early Saturday morning. Matt Rosendale (R-MT). McCarthy made concessions to the group of 20 GOP lawmakers who initially opposed him in order to get the votes necessary to become the speaker. At the end of the night, Matt got everybody there to the point that nobody voted against it.

This was the dramatic moment when tensions flared on the floor of the House of Representatives after 14 rounds of voting for a new Speaker.

Matt Gaetz says he finally flipped his vote to “present” on the House speaker vote after Kevin McCarthy caved to every one of his demands.

“And Sean, we’re at the stage right now where I’m running out of stuff to ask for.” After a final intense round of lobbying, the four far-right holdouts agreed to vote “present” in the 15th ballot, and Mr McCarthy was elected over Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries 216-212. During the 14th round of voting on Friday night, Mr Gaetz and Ms Boebert switched their votes to “present”. Likening the negotiations to a “prenuptial agreement”, Mr Gaetz said they had secured written agreements on the border and balancing the federal budget. Mr McCarthy was forced to reinstate a rule that will allow a single House member to call a “motion to vacate,” or a vote to oust the speaker. [Matt Gaetz](/topic/matt-gaetz) says he finally flipped his vote to “present” on [the House speaker vote](/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-speaker-vote-live-mccarthy-13th-b2257638.html) after [Kevin McCarthy](/topic/kevin-mccarthy) caved to every one of his demands.

Chaos reigned during the final House speaker vote on Friday night, as Rep Mike Rogers had to be physically restrained after apparently lunging towards ...

During the vast majority of the House speaker roll call votes, Gaetz chose to back an array of conservative alternatives to Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

Mike Rogers of Alabama after the 14th round of voting then confronted Gaetz and And the new rules would also empower conservatives in the lower chamber, giving them more representation on critical congressional committees. While the move represented a breakthrough for Gaetz, it generated anger from many members within the larger caucus as McCarthy remained one vote shy of winning the speaker's gavel. During Kevin McCarthy's protracted battle to secure the speakership in the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Rep. Gaetz came into the original January 3 vote seeking new leadership, which he expressed through a succession of speaker votes cast for Reps. - Gaetz told CNN that he "ran out of things" to ask for by the end of the public leadership fight.