A hostile back and forth took place after Mr McCarthy approached him, while a number of Republican lawmakers began to crowd them. Rep. Mike Rogers, who did back Mr McCarthy in the vote, appeared to lunge in the direction of where Mr Gaetz was sitting, but was held back by other...
” 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 helped a lot of people. Eighty-eight percent of my students are on free or reduced lun...
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...
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...
The California Republican had to go through 15 rounds of voting in January just to clinch the gavel in the first place, his path blocked largely by many of the same rebels who threatened his speakership. McCarthy's background McCarthy's risefrom California state politics to the leader...
“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,...
Is McCarthy’s blunder embarrassing? Hugely! Is basic knowledge of this country’s history, how our government functions, and other lessons children learn in school a prerequisite for being a member of the modern Republican Party? Well, as his colleagues can attest, obviously not. *** Bess L...
MARGARET BRENNAN: Good morning and welcome to Face the Nation. We have a lot to get to this morning, including the latest on the evolving situation in Memphis. But we begin with the new Speaker of the House, California Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, who is second in the presidential...
telling POLITICO in an interview on Tuesday that he will be another vote against McCarthy. Hard no: Norman said he agreed he is a “hard” no vote against the California Republican, dismissing that he will either vote present or not attend the speakership vote early next year. ...
“But this is a Republican stronghold still, and you can tell by the primary elections always sliding toward GOP candidates. Democrats didn’t even make it past the primary. In 2022 Grove actually faced a Democrat in the Senate race and, despite people here being worried about p...