Republicans officially take over the House Tuesday with a razor-thin majority. Members will vote on the House speaker and — if a speaker is elected — new and re-elected representatives will be sworn in. There is still a lot unknown about how the speakership vote will go but it is expected to be long and chaotic.
A speaker’s race hasn’t gone to a second ballot in a century, but after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to get the 218 votes he needs to became speaker in the first three rounds, the House voted to adjourn until Wednesday at noon EST.
Catch up on our live coverage of the historically unprecedented rounds of speakership votes below:
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Republicans officially take over the House Tuesday with a razor-thin majority. Members will vote on the House speaker and — if a speaker is elected — new and re-elected representatives will be sworn in. There is still a lot unknown about how the speakership vote will go but it is expected to be long and chaotic.
A speaker’s race hasn’t gone to a second ballot in a century, but after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to get the 218 votes he needs to became speaker in the first three rounds, the House voted to adjourn until Wednesday at noon EST.
Catch up on our live coverage of the historically unprecedented rounds of speakership votes below:
I keep thinking, “people voted for this.”
Let it burn.
Voters may not have all realized that a vote for any Republican these days is a vote for the most extreme MAGA/QAnon figures to lead the party.
McCarthy is such a dummy. We should thank our lucky stars for him every day. Imagine the damage someone with a brain (like McConnell) could do in his position.
It’s no accident, of course. Stupid ideologies yield stupid leaders. McConnell is a holdover from a previous generation.
Disfunction is the best we can hope for.