January 5, 2023, 3:05 AM1:27 Kevin McCarthy scrambles to secure votes for speaker of the House Congressional lawmakers are set to vote on a new speaker Tuesday.The House began voting shortly after noon on Tuesday to determine who its next speaker will be -- though, so far, the vote ...
The Househeld just one vote for speaker on Tuesday afternoon, and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio,lost handily. Twenty Republicans voted against him, a really big hurdle to overcome when you consider that there’s word that he may loseanother five or six Republicans’ supporton the second b...
It is possible to win the speakership without hitting 217 in this Congress, but in order to do so, a candidate would have to coax some of those in opposition to change their votes from "no" to "present." Measures are passed in the House with a majority of those who cast a vote. ...
Just one vote short of becoming speaker of the House, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy stood up from his chair and asked the defiant Matt Gaetz to change his vote from “present” to “McCarthy.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, fresh off of a days-long speakership battle, faces his first test on Monday evening as the chamber prepares to vote on a rules package to jump start the new Congress. Thepackagesets the rules for how the chamber will operate in t...
Kevin McCarthyon Friday picked up several new votes from House Freedom Caucus in a sign he might be turning the tide in hisquest to be House speaker, but still fell just short of the votes he needs. In the12th round of voting, McCarthy captured 14 new votes for speaker from Republicans...
Conservatives: No One Has the Votes for House Speaker. YetConservatives emerged from a late Tuesday night gathering inwhich they questioned a trio of...Ferrechio, Susan
Santos survived two previous expulsion efforts due to the influence of the current House speaker, Mike Johnson, and his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, who both didn't want to lose his seat to a Democrat in a special election. Under New York state law, the governor has 10 days to declare th...
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks during the Republican National Convention 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the United States, July 15, 2024. Former U.S. President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, received enough delegate votes on Monday to officially become the party's nominee...
The new speaker told Senate Republicans at a party lunch that he wants GOP border negotiators to push for as much as possible of the conservative House-passed border bill known as H.R. 2, according to senators who were in the room. That proposal is a nonstarter with the Senate's Democrat...