India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Singh Sandhu (R) with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy on April 18, 2023. Photo: Twitter/@SandhuTaranjitS India’s Ambassador to the U.S. Taranjit Singh Sandhu on April 18 met the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy and had a discussion on further strengthening … Read more
Taipei, Taiwan CNN — Defying Beijing’s repeated threats, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy presented a carefully choreographed united front in California on Wednesday against an increasingly powerful and aggressive China. For Taiwan, the rare high-level, bipartisan meeting is a timely show of US support, as China ramps up diplomatic and … Read more
CNN — Taiwan confirmed Tuesday that President Tsai Ing-wen will transit the United States en route to Central America at the end of the month, but there was no word on whether a highly anticipated meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will take place. Tsai will head to New York on March 29 before … Read more
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy bangs the Speaker’s gavel for the first time after being elected the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: Following the narrow mid-term election victory of the U.S. Republican Party in the House of Representatives in November, California Congressman Kevin … Read more
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy flipped 15 colleagues to support him in dramatic votes for House speaker on Friday, January 6, 2023, making extraordinary gains on the fourth day and the 12th and 13th ballots of a historic standoff that was testing American democracy and the GOP majority’s ability to govern. The switched votes from conservative … Read more
Object previewFor a third day, divided Republicans left the speaker’s chair of the U.S. House sitting empty Thursday, January 5, 2023, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed and failed again in an excruciating string of ballots to win enough GOP votes to seize the chamber’s gavel. Pressure was building as McCarthy lost the seventh and … Read more
U.S. Republican Representative from California Kevin McCarthy (right) speaks with a colleague as the U.S. House of Representatives continues voting for new Speaker at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on January 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP House Republicans flailed through a second day of multiple balloting Wednesday, unable to elect their leader Kevin … Read more
Top U.S. Republican Kevin McCarthy was chosen as his party’s leader in the House of Representatives, putting him in a prime position to become Speaker if his camp reclaims control of the chamber as expected. File | Photo Credit: AP On the cusp of touching the magic number of 218 that would give the Republicans … Read more