How Biden is navigating his rocky relationship with California’s top Republican
2 years ago

How Biden is navigating his rocky relationship with California’s top Republican

LA Times  

President Biden, addressing a postelection gathering of congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday, said he hoped he could work with Congress on funding the government, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and supporting Ukraine. “I’m hopeful that Kevin and I can work out a modus vivendi as to how we’ll proceed with one another.” Republicans, meanwhile, lament the White House has made little effort to work with House GOP members, many of whom rejected the bipartisan deals the president cut with the Senate on infrastructure, domestic semiconductor funding and gun safety reform. “I would characterize not just Biden’s relationship with McCarthy but his whole relationship with Republicans as rocky,” Rep. Don Bacon said. Like Obama, Buck said, Biden is an incumbent president running for reelection — for now — and McCarthy and Republicans need to be seen as the “loyal opposition.” Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who oversaw a Republican majority in Congress from 1995 until 1999, said any cooperation between Biden and McCarthy will have to happen between the men themselves, and not at a staff level. “They’re behaving as though Pelosi is going to be speaker again.” Still, McCarthy needs to choose his battles, said Gingrich, who campaigned with the California Republican before the midterms.

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Congressional Democrats are divided over Biden's future after debate performance
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Congressional Democrats are divided over Biden's future after debate performance

NPR  

Congressional Democrats are divided over Biden's future after debate performance toggle caption Chris Kleponis/AFP via Getty Images Democrats returned to Capitol Hill Monday still deeply divided over President Biden and his future within the party. Senior Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said in a statement that "President Biden must do more to demonstrate he can campaign strong enough to beat …

Joe Biden just made a move that could cut into Trump's support among Republicans
7 months ago

Joe Biden just made a move that could cut into Trump's support among Republicans

Raw Story  

President Joe Biden's campaign is leaping into action with redoubled effort to court voters for former South Carolina Gov. According to The Daily Beast's Jake Lahut, "A group of Nikki Haley supporters from Vermont to Arizona met with President Joe Biden’s campaign on Wednesday night almost immediately after she announced her plan to vote for Donald Trump. In the previously …

Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump, sell voters on a second term

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden delivered a defiant argument for a second term in his State of the Union speech Thursday night, lacing into GOP front-runner Donald Trump for espousing “resentment, revenge and retribution” and for jeopardizing freedom at home and abroad. “Freedom and democracy are under attack both at home and overseas at the very same time,” Biden said …

Senior Biden campaign officials kick-start coordination with House Democrats for 2024 race
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Senior Biden campaign officials kick-start coordination with House Democrats for 2024 race

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. WASHINGTON — Senior officials for President Joe Biden’s reelection effort met with House Democrats on Thursday to outline in detail post-Super Tuesday campaign plans — a strategy session that marks a significant boost in efforts to coordinate with lawmakers on organizing and communicating with voters nationwide. To that end, senior …

California holds the key to GOP power in the House. McCarthy’s retirement makes everything harder
1 year ago

California holds the key to GOP power in the House. McCarthy’s retirement makes everything harder

LA Times  

With Kevin McCarthy heading for the exits, his Republican colleagues are bracing for a falloff in campaign support and loss of granular institutional knowledge that could leave them at a disadvantage heading into next fall’s elections. The CLF and AAN raised a combined total of $16 million in the first 10 days of Johnson’s speakership.. Crenshaw said that major GOP …

Why post-McCarthy dread and doom is afflicting the GOP's 'Biden 18'
1 year, 2 months ago

Why post-McCarthy dread and doom is afflicting the GOP's 'Biden 18'

Raw Story  

The Republican House members most targeted by Democrats for defeat in 2024 have been thrown into a state of anxiety by the historic removal Tuesday of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. We can’t afford to play these games.” Rep. Juan Ciscomani, who won by just 1.5 percent in 2022, blasted McCarthy’s removal as “pointless, unproductive and harmful to the agenda we …

Explained | What are the implications of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster?
1 year, 2 months ago

Explained | What are the implications of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, Republican Kevin McCarthy, has been ousted from his senior position in the lower chamber of Congress by hardliners within his party. Perhaps sensing his positional weakness, Florida Republican and Trump supporter Matt Gaetz relied on a “rarely used procedural tool known as a motion to vacate” to abruptly end Mr. …

Hardline Republican leader to move to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
1 year, 2 months ago

Hardline Republican leader to move to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

Firstpost  

Hard line Republicans were furious when McCarthy struck a stopgap deal with Democrats late Saturday to keep the government open for a further 45 days at current spending levels A leading hardline Republican said Sunday he would move to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for striking a deal with Democrats to avert a US government shutdown without the spending cuts …

Republicans ‘still can’t get their s*** together’ – this week proves it
1 year, 2 months ago

Republicans ‘still can’t get their s*** together’ – this week proves it

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Right after the House passed the …

The far right has been feuding with McCarthy for weeks. Here’s how it’s spiraling into a shutdown
1 year, 2 months ago

The far right has been feuding with McCarthy for weeks. Here’s how it’s spiraling into a shutdown

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — With little time left to prevent a government shutdown, the House is in a familiar position: effectively paralyzed as conservatives feud with Speaker Kevin McCarthy over matters large and small. And those two numbers are pretty far apart.” McCarthy’s allies have insisted the speaker has kept his word and is still fighting for the spending levels he promised …

Speaker McCarthy is giving hard-right Republicans what they want. But it never seems to be enough.
1 year, 3 months ago

Speaker McCarthy is giving hard-right Republicans what they want. But it never seems to be enough.

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Staring down a fast-approaching government shutdown that threatens to disrupt life for millions of Americans, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has turned to a strategy that so far has preserved his tenuous hold on House leadership but also marked it by chaos: giving hard-right lawmakers what they want. “Because shutting down — and having border agents not be paid, your …

McCarthy facing revolt from 'fed up' moderates for letting extremists hold the party 'hostage'
1 year, 3 months ago

McCarthy facing revolt from 'fed up' moderates for letting extremists hold the party 'hostage'

Raw Story  

With budget negotiations heating up and the far-right Republican Party House members clamoring for impeachment hearings on President Joe Biden, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is entering the most fraught period of his already tenuous speakership. Now, according to a new report from Politico, the threat to his leadership is coming from GOP moderates who are furious with the California Republican …

Weeks from a possible government shutdown, Mitch McConnell is freezing up in public. That’s not a good sign
1 year, 3 months ago

Weeks from a possible government shutdown, Mitch McConnell is freezing up in public. That’s not a good sign

LA Times  

Robbin Taylor, the state director for Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, steps to the Senate Republican leader’s side as he freezes up while trying to respond to a reporter’s question Wednesday in Covington, Ky. A spokesperson later told news organizations that McConnell had felt “light-headed.” Public worries about aged leaders The spectacle would be disturbing even if McConnell were not one …

News Analysis: The House is in chaos again, but it’s just another week for Kevin McCarthy
1 year, 5 months ago

News Analysis: The House is in chaos again, but it’s just another week for Kevin McCarthy

LA Times  

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy stops to speak to members of the media gathered in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The hard-right House Freedom Caucus’ latest revolt against McCarthy was over the National Defense Authorization Act, the law that authorizes the annual spending for the U.S. military. At some point, the power of the …

How Joe Biden will increase his reelection chances by fixing these five everyday annoyances
1 year, 5 months ago

How Joe Biden will increase his reelection chances by fixing these five everyday annoyances

Raw Story  

President Joe Biden has lately focused on solving relatively small — but highly annoying — everyday problems that Americans face. “You shouldn’t have to pay an extra $50 to sit next to your child on the plane, pay a surprise ‘resort fee’ for a hotel stay, pay $200 to terminate your cable plan, or pay huge service fees to buy …

Hard-line conservatives demand concessions from House Speaker McCarthy in debt-ceiling standoff
1 year, 6 months ago

Hard-line conservatives demand concessions from House Speaker McCarthy in debt-ceiling standoff

Hindustan Times  

Hard-line conservatives angered by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt-ceiling deal are demanding power-sharing and budget-cutting concessions from him in exchange for allowing legislation to move on the House floor. U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/ In agreeing Monday to temporarily lift a nearly week-long blockade of the …

How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe
1 year, 6 months ago

How Biden and McCarthy struck a debt limit deal and staved off a catastrophe

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It was advice that Mitch McConnell had offered to Joe Biden once already: To resolve the debt limit standoff, he needed to strike a deal with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — and McCarthy alone. I told you then, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” This account of the weeks-long saga of how Washington defused the …

Ahead of House vote, Biden and McCarthy scramble to corral support on debt-limit deal
1 year, 6 months ago

Ahead of House vote, Biden and McCarthy scramble to corral support on debt-limit deal

LA Times  

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden are working to drum up enough votes in Congress to pass their debt-limit deal. Hard-fought to the end, the federal debt ceiling and budget cuts package is heading toward a crucial House vote as President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy assemble a coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans to push it through, past …

Why McCarthy and Biden both stand to gain from the debt deal — if they can get it passed
1 year, 6 months ago

Why McCarthy and Biden both stand to gain from the debt deal — if they can get it passed

LA Times  

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have different reasons for striking a debt deal, but both men stand to benefit politically. Despite the sharp rhetoric leading up to last weekend’s debt and budget agreement, both House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden stand to benefit politically. “But we made it clear at the outset of this Congress that we …

Biden says final US debt ceiling deal ready for Congress vote
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden says final US debt ceiling deal ready for Congress vote

Al Jazeera  

US president and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy confident they will be able to get enough support to avert unprecedented default. United States President Joe Biden has finalised an agreement with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise the debt ceiling over two years until January 1, 2025, saying the deal is ready to move to Congress for a vote. “Takes the …

Biden, McCarthy reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous U.S. default
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden, McCarthy reach tentative deal to raise debt ceiling, avoid calamitous U.S. default

The Hindu  

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation's legal debt ceiling late on Saturday as they raced to strike a deal to limit federal spending and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Mr. Biden called the agreement “good news for the American people, because it prevents what could have been a …

Biden, GOP Reach Tentative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling, Avoid Calamitous US Default
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden, GOP Reach Tentative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling, Avoid Calamitous US Default

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an “agreement in principle” to raise the nation’s legal debt ceiling late Saturday as they raced to strike a deal to limit federal spending and avert a potentially disastrous U.S. default. Biden called the agreement “good news for the American people, because it prevents what could …

Biden says debt deal ‘very close’ with default deadline now set at June 5
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden says debt deal ‘very close’ with default deadline now set at June 5

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said a deal to resolve the government’s debt ceiling crisis seemed “very close” late Friday, even as the deadline for a potentially catastrophic default was pushed back to June 5 and seemed likely to drag negotiations between the White House and Republicans into another frustrating week. As talks pushed into another late night, one of …

Biden and McCarthy discuss debt crisis as GOP negotiator says ‘thorny issues’ remain
1 year, 6 months ago

Biden and McCarthy discuss debt crisis as GOP negotiator says ‘thorny issues’ remain

LA Times  

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke directly Saturday evening as they raced to strike an agreement to resolve the looming debt crisis ahead of a June 5 deadline and avert a catastrophic U.S. default. Some of those outstanding issues, he said, “the president and speaker have to resolve at that level.” The Republican House speaker gathered top allies …

High-stake debt ceiling negotiations: Biden and McCarthy seek resolution amid mounting tensions
1 year, 7 months ago

High-stake debt ceiling negotiations: Biden and McCarthy seek resolution amid mounting tensions

Hindustan Times  

U.S. President Joe Biden and White House Speaker Kevin McCarthy engaged in a crucial one-on-one meeting on Monday to address the pressing issue of avoiding a potentially catastrophic government debt default. WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters outside his office at the Capitol following a meeting with President Joe Biden on May 22, …

Biden, McCarthy to hold pivotal meeting on debt ceiling as time to resolve standoff grows short
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden, McCarthy to hold pivotal meeting on debt ceiling as time to resolve standoff grows short

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are set …

Biden, McCarthy to speak on debt limit; talks stalled as Republicans seek deep spending cuts
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden, McCarthy to speak on debt limit; talks stalled as Republicans seek deep spending cuts

Associated Press  

HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Joe Biden planned on Sunday to speak directly with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, hoping to salvage talks to raise the debt limit that have stalled in recent days while he was abroad at the Group of Seven summit. “We’re going to get a chance to talk later today,” Biden said of McCarthy, R-Calif., while the president …

Biden to meet with McCarthy, says GOP must move off ‘extreme’ positions on debt limit
1 year, 7 months ago

Biden to meet with McCarthy, says GOP must move off ‘extreme’ positions on debt limit

LA Times  

Debt ceiling talks between the White House and House Republicans resumed Sunday at the Capitol as Washington races to strike a budget compromise along with a deal to raise the nation’s borrowing limit and avert an economy-wrecking federal default. He said he did not think the final legislation would remake the federal budget and the country’s debt, but at least …

Debt limit talks seem to make little headway as Biden, world leaders watch from afar for progress
1 year, 7 months ago

Debt limit talks seem to make little headway as Biden, world leaders watch from afar for progress

LA Times  

President Biden, attending the G-7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday, says he believes “we’ll be able to avoid a default and we’ll get something decent done.” Debt limit talks between the White House and House Republicans stopped, started and stopped again heading into the weekend, as President Biden and other world leaders watched from afar, hoping high-stakes negotiations would …

Speaker McCarthy unveils $1.5T debt bill, pushes toward vote
1 year, 8 months ago

Speaker McCarthy unveils $1.5T debt bill, pushes toward vote

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unveiled a sweeping package Wednesday that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year while imposing a long list of Republican priorities, including new spending caps, work requirements for recipients of government aid and others that are sure to be nonstarters for the White House. McCarthy announced that House Republicans …

Biden in State of Union exhorts Congress: ‘Finish the job’
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden in State of Union exhorts Congress: ‘Finish the job’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden exhorted Congress Tuesday night to work with him to “finish the job” of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation as he delivered a State of the Union address aimed at reassuring a country beset by pessimism and fraught political divisions. “That’s always been my vision for the country: to restore the soul of the …

Biden rallies Democrats around accomplishments and against ‘extreme’ GOP ahead of possible 2024 bid
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden rallies Democrats around accomplishments and against ‘extreme’ GOP ahead of possible 2024 bid

CNN  

PHILADELPHIA CNN — President Joe Biden rallied Democrats ahead of a possible reelection bid Friday evening, leaning into the accomplishments of his first two years in office and revving up his attacks on “extreme MAGA Republicans.” “We have more to do,” Biden said at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The remarks at a downtown Philadelphia hotel …

A look at Biden and McCarthy's relationship ahead of the State of the Union address
1 year, 10 months ago

A look at Biden and McCarthy's relationship ahead of the State of the Union address

NPR  

A look at Biden and McCarthy's relationship ahead of the State of the Union address When President Biden gives his State of the Union address, new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will be seated above his shoulder, on the dais. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: When President Biden delivers his State of the Union address next week, he'll have a new person peering …

After meeting with Biden, McCarthy says he won't agree to clean debt ceiling increase
1 year, 10 months ago

After meeting with Biden, McCarthy says he won't agree to clean debt ceiling increase

NPR  

After meeting with Biden, McCarthy says he won't agree to clean debt ceiling increase Enlarge this image toggle caption Devin Speak/NPR Devin Speak/NPR For the first time since becoming House speaker, California Republican Kevin McCarthy met Wednesday with President Biden to discuss how to avoid a default on the U.S. debt. But speaking to reporters later on Capitol Hill, McCarthy …

Biden, McCarthy, once breakfast mates, wrangle over US debt
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden, McCarthy, once breakfast mates, wrangle over US debt

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, Joe Biden and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy used to talk things over at breakfast in Biden’s vice presidential home at the Naval Observatory. “He was always a person who would like to try to find solutions, work together.” Biden has signaled no such open-ended hospitality this time as newly emboldened House Republicans court a …

Inside McCarthy’s House: Famous friends and hard realities
1 year, 10 months ago

Inside McCarthy’s House: Famous friends and hard realities

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — In an almost forgotten slice of marbled real estate at the Capitol, the Kevin McCarthy era is taking shape in Congress. Three weeks into the new Republican majority, the risks of McCarthy’s leadership style are clearly taking hold: In the interest of opening up the legislative process, with more seats at the table for far-right lawmakers, the GOP …

Biden meets with Democratic leaders as debt showdown looms
1 year, 10 months ago

Biden meets with Democratic leaders as debt showdown looms

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hosted the Democratic congressional leaders Tuesday at the White House as they face a new era of divided government in Washington, staring down a debt ceiling crisis and running up against a new House Republican majority eager for confrontation. The president and the top Democrats used the private gathering in the Roosevelt Room to project …

White House to McCarthy: No negotiations on debt limit
1 year, 11 months ago

White House to McCarthy: No negotiations on debt limit

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The White House says President Joe Biden “looks forward” to sitting down with new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to discuss a range of topics, including perhaps the thorniest challenge confronting Washington this year: raising the nation’s debt limit. “Like the president has said many times, raising the debt ceiling is not a negotiation; it is an obligation of …

McCarthy invites Biden for Feb. 7 State of the Union speech
1 year, 11 months ago

McCarthy invites Biden for Feb. 7 State of the Union speech

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address on Feb. 7, the White House said, after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy extended the invitation for him to address a joint session of Congress that day. It will come as his administration seeks areas of common interest with the newly empowered GOP while also working to …

Speaker McCarthy’s tidy 1st week disguises trouble ahead
1 year, 11 months ago

Speaker McCarthy’s tidy 1st week disguises trouble ahead

Associated Press  

In the House of Representatives? And when House Republicans met for the first time behind closed doors after the rowdy public spectacle that broke history records and almost came to fistfights to elect McCarthy as speaker, it was a “lovefest,” as one Republican lawmaker put it. It was Trump’s 11th hour push for McCarthy as voting was underway late last …

Republican McCarthy elected as house speaker; party to pass bill bolstering Internal Revenue Service
1 year, 11 months ago

Republican McCarthy elected as house speaker; party to pass bill bolstering Internal Revenue Service

India Today  

Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first test late Monday as the Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on Day One that stretched into the second week of the new majority. It’s the start of a new era of potentially crisis governing, House Republicans …

Having elected House speaker, Republicans try governing
1 year, 11 months ago

Having elected House speaker, Republicans try governing

LA Times  

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters as he walks to the speaker’s ceremonial office at the Capitol in Washington on Monday. Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first test late Monday as Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on day one that stretched into the second week of the new majority. …

McCarthy offers deal to end standoff in U.S. House speaker fight
1 year, 11 months ago

McCarthy offers deal to end standoff in U.S. House speaker fight

The Hindu  

The contours of a deal that could make Republican leader Kevin McCarthy the U.S. House speaker have begun to emerge after three grueling days and 11 failed votes in a political spectacle unseen in a century. “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” The agreement Mr. McCarthy presented to the holdouts from the conservative Freedom Caucus and others …

‘A disaster': Speaker fight exposes GOP leadership vacuum
1 year, 11 months ago

‘A disaster': Speaker fight exposes GOP leadership vacuum

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — With House Republicans riven by infighting, unable to coalesce around a pick for speaker, former President Donald Trump had an emphatic message for the new GOP majority. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned that the anti-McCarthy Republicans were “playing with fire.” “This is the greatest danger we’ve had as a party since 1964,” Gingrich said in an …

Kevin McCarthy Vows Not To Bail On Speaker Bid, Claims Donald Trump Backs Him
1 year, 11 months ago

Kevin McCarthy Vows Not To Bail On Speaker Bid, Claims Donald Trump Backs Him

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — House Republicans will open the second day of the new Congress much like the first — with leader Kevin McCarthy trying to become House speaker despite losing in multiple rounds of voting that threw the new GOP majority into chaos. Asked if he would drop out, McCarthy said, “It’s not going to happen.” It was …

McCarthy vows to stay in speaker’s race, with Trump backing
1 year, 11 months ago

McCarthy vows to stay in speaker’s race, with Trump backing

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said late Tuesday there’s no scenario in which he’ll drop his bid to become House speaker despite failing to win multiple rounds of voting, a historic defeat that brought the first day of the new Congress to an abrupt, messy end. Asked if he would drop out, McCarthy said, “It’s not going to happen.” …

As House Republicans squabble, Biden and McConnell shake hands
1 year, 11 months ago

As House Republicans squabble, Biden and McConnell shake hands

LA Times  

President Biden shakes hands with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky after speaking about his infrastructure agenda in Covington, Ky. As House Republicans squabbled Wednesday over who would lead them, President Biden made a rare appearance with Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell to promote a bipartisan infrastructure law that will fund long-awaited repairs to an aging bridge connecting Ohio …

Kevin McCarthy fails to secure majority in US House – again
1 year, 11 months ago

Kevin McCarthy fails to secure majority in US House – again

Al Jazeera  

US House adjourns for a second day without a speaker after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy lost six votes in a row. “I just think it’s really embarrassing it’s taking so long.” Without a speaker, new House politicians – elected in the November midterms – cannot be sworn in. Asked by reporters late on Tuesday whether he will drop out of …

Editorial: A disastrous, embarrassing first day for the GOP-controlled House
1 year, 11 months ago

Editorial: A disastrous, embarrassing first day for the GOP-controlled House

LA Times  

Rep. Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters as he departs from a GOP caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 3. In a dramatic repudiation by colleagues, Rep. Kevin McCarthy failed to secure election as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after three votes on Tuesday. The Bakersfield Republican could still prevail when voting resumes, but win or …

Republicans in Biden districts throw down the gauntlet at GOP rebels over bid to block McCarthy
1 year, 11 months ago

Republicans in Biden districts throw down the gauntlet at GOP rebels over bid to block McCarthy

Raw Story  

Republican congresspersons who represent districts that President Joe Biden won in the 2020 election are throwing down the gauntlet at opponents of Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. In a letter flagged by Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, 15 GOP lawmakers informed their intransigent Republican colleagues that they will not be happy with what happens if they are successful in …

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