Unless a House majority moves otherwise, all that would be allowed to happen is for Johnson, the clerk, to keep calling votes for speaker, and Johnson would remain clerk for the entirety of the process until a speaker is chosen. Such a scenario would likely be an embarrassment to the incom...
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
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Jordan ran against each other within the Republican conference to be the GOP speaker nominee. Scalise was the first Republican selected by his party, but when he could not secure the backing of enough of Jordan's supporters,he dropped his bid. Jordan h...
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...
8. RAMELSON, Marian The Petticoat Rebellion: a century of struggle for women’s rights Lawrence & Wishart 1972 An interesting history of the women’s movement, written from a left-wing angle. Paper covers – ex-university library [1592] £3 9. REID, Marion A Plea for Woman Polygon 1988...
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.”
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...
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy joined Brian Kilmeade to discuss Senator Mitch McConnell stepping down as Republican Leader, Trump and Biden's dueling border visits, the latest on Hunter Biden investigation & the need to fund Ukraine The Republican-dominated Kentucky House voted Mon...
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...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday also predicted a victory for Biden despite the fact that the race has not yet been called: "This morning it is clear that the Biden-Harris ticket will win the White House." Trump, meanwhile, accused Democrats of trying to "steal" the elec...