After a historic 14 rounds of voting over four days, there is still no speaker of the House. Here’s what you might have missed: Round 1 Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., nominated Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., nominated Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.; Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., nominated Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. The following…
The next speaker of the House has yet to be chosen as about 20 conservative Republicans continued to oppose Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s speakership bid Thursday, when he lost the seventh ballot early in the afternoon. “There were more conversations last night. I think that Leader McCarthy knows that he doesn’t have the votes, that…
After Republicans clinched their narrower-than-expected new House majority in November’s midterm elections, the only relevant questions for Congress-watchers seemed to pertain to what Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s, R-Calif., impending House speakership would look like. To what extent, if any, would he return House rules to “regular order,” whereby bills are drafted and marked up in decentralized…
Democrats passed proxy voting in their fourth coronavirus recovery bill on Friday. “Instead of 435 [people] representing districts across the nation … 20 people control all of Congress,” says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, referring to the effect of Democrats’ proxy voting push. “Each member can call up to 10 proxies,” McCarthy tells The Daily…
Was there ever a valid reason for the Mueller investigation? What are the lessons for the country about this two-year process and how it unfolded? And what about this new impeachment push? We speak about all this with Andrew McCarthy, author of a new book “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and…
The speaker of the House has yet to be chosen after three days and 11 rounds of voting. So, how long can this go on? “That’s a great question, and I think one that many in Washington, D.C., are contemplating—us, people on the Hill, staff members of members themselves. But the short answer is it…
The battle for the speaker of the House position continues after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., failed to secure the majority of votes on Tuesday. The 118th Congress convened at noon and voted shortly after for the speakership position. McCarthy received 203 votes in the first round of votes. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., nominated Rep. Andy…
The next speaker of the House is still undecided after three rounds of voting Tuesday produced no clear winner. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy failed to secure the majority of votes in any of the three rounds. The Californian received 203 votes in rounds one and two, and 202 in the third round, The Associated…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted from his position Tuesday afternoon. Eight Republicans and all Democrats present voted to remove McCarthy. “The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant,” Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., who was presiding over the House chamber, said following the vote. Rep….
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the front-runner for House speaker, is working to lock up support from colleagues before Republican lawmakers vote tomorrow, but a group of conservatives hints that the race for the top spot is far from over. At the monthly Capitol Hill gathering Conversations with Conservatives, lawmakers expressed skepticism over whether McCarthy, currently the House's…
Stan Evans helped build the conservative movement by founding the American Conservative Union, the Conservative Political Action Conference, and establishing the National Journalism Center. He was, in addition, a tremendous journalist and thinker. His book “The Theme Is Freedom” should be a conservative classic, Steven Hayward observes in his new book “M. Stanton Evans: Conservative…
The conservative House Freedom Caucus threw a wrench into the race for House speaker late Wednesday when members vowed to unite as a powerful voting bloc to endorse long-shot Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida. The Freedom Caucus, credited with helping push out Speaker John Boehner, has 40 or so members and effectively has veto power in the…
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has ended his bid to become the next speaker of the House of Representatives. McCarthy, the current House majority leader, was the leading candidate among three Republicans seeking the top job of speaker. However, he lacked the 218 votes needed to win a vote on the House floor after the conservative House…
Kevin McCarthy of California defeated Idaho conservative Raúl Labrador in this afternoon’s Republican conference election for House majority leader. In the election to replace McCarthy as majority whip, Steve Scalise of Louisiana bested Peter Roskam of Illinois and Indiana’s Marlin Stutzman. Early vote counts had predicted McCarthy, 49, and Scalise, 48, would emerge victorious in…
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced Monday that he will be running for House speaker. If elected, McCarthy will replace Speaker John Boehner, who is set to resign at the end of October. “We have made real progress towards shrinking an overgrown federal government and reforming our broken entitlement system,” McCarthy wrote in an email…
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is inching closer to the speaker of the House position after 15 Republicans changed their votes in his favor on Friday. They include: Scott Perry of Pennsylvania Ralph Norman of South Carolina Andrew Clyde of Georgia Dan Bishop of North Carolina Anna Paulina Luna of Florida Chip Roy of Texas Victoria…
One day before President Joe Biden is set to address the nation during his State of the Union speech, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy warned that “the greatest threat to our future is our national debt.” McCarthy, R-Calif., told Americans during a speech Monday night: “Our national debt is high, too high. And the problem is getting…
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he isn’t certain a deal on the nation’s debt ceiling will be made Thursday as negotiations between Republican and Democrat lawmakers continue. “I don’t know if we’ll have a deal today,” McCarthy, R-Calif., said when asked during an appearance on Fox News Channel about the progress of talks with President…
Today was supposed to be the day supporters of the Export-Import Bank struck back. After weeks of disappointing news and dimming prospects for the bank’s reauthorization, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers picked Monday to roll out an “all-hands-on-deck” public-relations campaign in favor of the government agency. The leaders of both…
President Joe Biden “has been missing in action and misleading the public,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Monday in New York as the debt ceiling debate continued in Washington. “I met with President Biden at the White House on Feb. 1—75 days ago,” McCarthy said in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange…