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With Kevin McCarthy as Speaker, House Republicans gear up to wage a two year war on reality itself

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…

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

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

"People shouldn’t be drinking, especially when you’re a redneck, on the House floor.” said Rep. Tim Burchett

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

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.

Public access network has given new visibility to messy work of Congress

He raised the money. He logged the campaign miles. He walked the halls in a crisp suit with a salesman’s gleam. But this week Kevin McCarthy ran headlong into the most perilous challenge of his career when rebellious Republicans unleashed a crushing battle that nearly denied him the speakership of…

Damned by the findings of the January 6 committee and sidelined by his ‘loyal’ mob, the former president now faces political irrelevance. But the lasting damage he has done is evident in a Congress that struggled to elect a speaker

‘Never Kevin’ holdouts were given a series of concessions before McCarthy could become Speaker