Kevin McCarthy fails and fails again: GOP stalemate on new speaker

Kevin McCarthy fails and fails again: GOP stalemate on new speaker

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