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Editorial: Kevin McCarthy limps over the finish line to a job that he weakened

The only good thing about Kevin McCarthy scheduling his supposedly triumphant 14th House roll call vote that would finally make him speaker for 10 p.m. Friday, is that it wasn’t a school night. McCarthy, of course, lost that 14th vote and 15th-round balloting went well past midnight. When McCarthy said,…

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Mark Z. Barabak: Kevin McCarthy 'won' the House speakership. Now the country will pay the price

For years, Kevin McCarthy wanted to be speaker of the House in the worst possible way, and that's precisely what he accomplished by winning the leadership post after 15 humiliating rounds of voting and days of give-away-the-store negotiations.

Los Angeles Times

Will Bunch: Exhuming McCarthy: How minority rule could implode US democracy in 2023

In the end, he couldn’t even get 218 votes, a simple majority. The GOP’s Kevin McCarthy gained the House speakership in the dead of night early Saturday, but the last winner of a 15-rounder who emerged this battered and bloody was Muhammad Ali, who told reporters after 1975′s “Thrilla in…

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Lauren Boebert appears to hurl obscenity at Marjorie Taylor Greene in video of tense speaker vote exchange

Videos appear to show Colorado representative responding to her Republican colleague with expletive

The Independent UK

Lawmaker held back by the mouth apologises to Matt Gaetz over House speaker row

Alabama Republican publicly apologises to Matt Gaetz for ‘briefly’ losing temper

The Independent UK

Illinois Rep. Mary Miller, 20 other hardliners gain power in deal to back Kevin McCarthy for speaker

“I look forward to working with the House Republican Conference to stop Joe Biden’s destructive, radical, leftist agenda,” Rep. Mary Miller said in a statement.

Chicago Sun-Times

GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Penn. won’t step back from House probe that could involve allegations against him

As the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives readies to push back against recent federal investigations, one GOP lawmaker says he won’t sit things out in spite of a potential conflict of interest.

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Lawmakers grapple with aftermath of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s messy ascent to House speaker

After a chaotic start to the new Congress, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are playing nice with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — for now.

Tribune News Service

McCarthy's next big task: Win GOP support for House rules

After an epic 15-ballot election to become House speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy faces his next big test in governing a fractious, slim majority

The Independent UK

What we know about Kevin McCarthy's concessions to become speaker

Some of the key concessions McCarthy made that finally got him a deal for the speaker's gavel.

Axios

After chaotic week, McCarthy faces new battle as House votes on rules package

Some Republicans indicate they may withhold support unless details of concessions made to hard-right lawmakers are unveiled

The Guardian - US

MTG: QAnon beliefs "far in the past"

"I had easily gotten sucked into some things I had seen on the internet," Greene said in a Fox interview on Sunday

Salon

‘Let’s fight now’ over debt ceiling, House GOP lawmaker says

WASHINGTON — A conservative Republican at the center of the tortured effort to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he’d welcome a hard-fought battle over the U.S. debt ceiling, but said both parties should start negotiating terms for the increase now so it doesn’t go down to the wire.

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‘Let’s fight now’ over debt ceiling, House GOP lawmaker says

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Axios

Some Republicans expect rocky road for McCarthy as House speaker

"The speaker vote is the easiest vote we'll take in Congress and it was pretty chaotic," Rep. Tony Gonzales said.

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Rep. Comer "not convinced" there won't be a motion to oust McCarthy as speaker

Concessions McCarthy made to become speaker allow one lawmaker to force a vote to remove the speaker.

Axios

Mayorkas unfazed by McCarthy impeachment threat: "I've got a lot of work to do"

He said he has no intention of resigning and is prepared for any potential investigations.

The Independent UK

Boebert's backers urge her to 'tone down the nasty rhetoric'

Voters who support Lauren Boebert are hoping the firebrand Republican congresswoman from Colorado tones down her brash style

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Salon

Michael Moore's new message of hope

Filmmaker and activist predicted "red wave" would be a dud. His new podcast urges embattled liberals not to despair

WEKU

McCarthy's struggles point to troubles ahead for his office, his party and Congress

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.

The Guardian - UK

America’s ‘Taliban 20’ Republicans have the same roots as our Brexit spartans

The deranged politics driving the US Freedom Caucus and Tory anti-Europeans can only lead to one outcome: a death spiral for both

WEKU

PHOTOS: The drama-filled process to elect Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

Friday was the fourth day of voting for House speaker. Photographers captured tense moments in the House chamber as lawmakers negotiated.

Tribune News Service

McCarthy starts out with agenda already hemmed in by dissidents

WASHINGTON — Newly elected House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sought to rally Republicans with pledges to champion federal spending cuts, strengthen border security and counter “woke indoctrination,” hinting at his dependence on a small group of populist conservatives over the next two years.

Al Jazeera

McCarthy becomes US House speaker, but with diminished power

The 57-year-old Republican’s elevation comes after making concessions to an ultraconservative bloc of the party.

Tribune News Service

‘Crisis and confusion’: 4 days of GOP barbs, chaos and cigars

WASHINGTON — It was a near-fist fight on the House floor. It was four days of name-calling, late-night huddles, rush deliveries of pizzas and burritos. It was cigar smoke wafting through the hallways, diaper changes and a dog on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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