“I think there’s opportunities to get that headed back in the right direction,” he said of McCarthy’s vote count. McCarthy failed to secure enough support to win the speakership after three rounds of voting on Tuesday — and lawmakers decided to postpone future votes until Wednesday...
Party leaders, such as the speaker of the House and the majority and minority leaders, play a central role in the operations of the institution. However, party discipline (i.e., the tendency of all members of a political party to vote in the same way) has not always been strong, owing...
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Vote for House Speaker Ends in MuddleKim Bell and Terry Ganey Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau
House lawmakers return to Capitol for 14th speaker vote Staff members from the clerk's office of the U.S. House of Representives count votes on tally sheets during a 12th round of voting for a new Speaker on the fourth day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U....
A POLITICO internal whip count has found that more than 75 House Republicans say they plan to vote for Santos’ expulsion, while a dozen say they are likely to support his removal. If all Democrats vote to boot him, as expected, then lawmakers will reach the two-thirds vote threshold requi...
The hard-line Freedom Caucus has long wielded political power beyond its modest numbers by withholding backing on party-line votes essential to conducting business in the House, and grinding business to a halt. The vote for speaker is normally a routine display of party unity. McCarthy was nomi...
Portugal’s newly-elected Parliament has elected a new house speaker, following a deal between the country’s two main centrist parties.
A vote for the bill would represent an unusual break with the former president by House Republicans, but Speaker Mike Johnson and others have already forcefully come out in favor of the bill, and dropping it now would represent a significant reversal. “It’s an important bipartisan measure ...