Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy this week set the record for the longest speech made in the House of Representatives in modern history, at eight hours and 32 minutes. The Republican's marathon floor speech, which started Thursday night and ended before dawn the next day, eclipsed the previous ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, also a Democrat, must announce a special election date within 14 days of McCarthy's exit. McCarthy will leave Congress two months after he was booted from his House speakership position after his top rival, Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., orchestrated the rare vote...
McCarthy has chosen “the cult of personality in his cowardice at catering to Trump,” said Marisa Wood, a schoolteacher and Democrat running against McCarthy in the20th Congressional District.“We have high poverty and crime here. Kevin voted against the infrastructure bill that could have helpe...
McCarthy faced a so-called motion to vacate from Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who put forth the motion after McCarthy, his allies and Democrats passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government open -- legislation that Republican hard-liners said greenlit too much spending. ...
There is a deep irony to the fact that McCarthy’s fall from grace was accelerated by personal grievances. What brought the California Republican to the top of his party was not brainpower or legislative mastery, but relentlessness in cultivating allies and building strong interpersonal relationships...
Kevin McCarthy has been the House Republican leader since 2018, but by Tuesday's morning prelude to the vote for speaker of the House, it seemed at least a dozen Republicans would vote against him. Following a Republican conference meeting in which the various factions wer...
Republican Kevin McCarthy has been elected as the new US Speaker after winning the 15th vote as tensions boiled over in Congress. Mr McCarthy's party had taken control of the House – the US lower chamber – following the midterm elections in the autumn, with a slim 222-212 majority...
“I think when a person has been a member of the Congress — which is a very sacred duty, quite frankly, in my opinion — and they are elevated to become a leader of a party – could be either party, Republican or Democrat – that those in leadership must be above reproach,...
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The top Republican in the House of Representatives said congressional Democrats are on a quest for an "imaginary" impeachment against the will of the American people. Instead, lawmakers like House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., have used the prospect of impeaching President Tru...