Breaking News: Kevin McCarthy loses Ninth
ballot for speaker - as House braces for
a tenth round for the first time since
1856 on third day of Capitol Hill havoc:
Rebels keep voting against Republican
leader - even though he bowed to demands
Posted By: Imright, 1/5/2023 5:21:07 PM
House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy lost a ninth round vote for Speaker, which would mean he's lost three races each of the last three days. No House Speaker vote has gone on this long in modern US political history, and it's set Republicans' new majority in the chamber off to a rocky start. The last time a House Speaker vote reached 10 rounds was in 1859. In 1856, it took former House Speaker Nathaniel Prentice Banks two months and 133 rounds of voting for the House of Representatives to settle on a leader - the longest stretch on record.
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House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters Friday that he's confident he'll have the votes to get elected House speaker when the chamber reconvenes at 10 p.m. for the 14th roll call vote.
"Yes," McCarthy told a reporter when asked if he would have the votes to become speaker Friday night.
When asked if McCarthy would be able to convince two GOP holdouts, Reps.-elect Eli Crane, R-Ariz., and Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., the California Republican replied, "I'll have the votes."
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