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Will McCarthy be seen as a weakened leader or emboldened survivor? Tests await new speaker
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON — Republican Kevin McCarthy is the new House speaker, but as bruising as it was for him to seize the gavel in a history-making election, it may be even more difficult for the embattled ...
How a 'lesson of 2011' shaped Biden's no-negotiation stance on debt limit
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWASHINGTON — In 2011, after faltering debt limit negotiations with House Republicans brought the...
Kevin McCarthy was an early architect of the Republican majority that became his downfall
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe day before he was ousted, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was doing what he loved — stopping to...
The next GOP speaker will face the same traps that doomed McCarthy
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoGetting rid of Kevin McCarthy didn’t solve anything. Whoever succeeds the former House speaker will...
Biden-McConnell: Personally mismatched, professionally bound
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Joe Biden stepped to the lectern in the shadow of the Brent Spence Bridge in northern Kentucky...
Kevin McCarthy secures Speakership after historic floor battle
The Hill via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe final vote, on the 15th ballot, was 216 for McCarthy, 212 for House Minority Leader Hakeem...
Republican Chaos Has Conservative Media Fuming. It’s Their Fault It Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 8 months agoRep. Matt Gaetz is a “POS demagogue” for orchestrating the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership, a man who “repeatedly” lied to conservatives and, perhaps worst of all, is the “favorite ...
Today in History THUR JAN 05
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoToday in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2023. There are 360 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 5, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed ...
Veterans of the Obama-era debt ceiling standoff on the current one: We may be doomed
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe last time the U.S. found itself on the verge of a debt ceiling disaster, David Kamin had a front row seat to all the action. An economic adviser in the Obama White House, Kamin was among ...
McCarthy says they need a debt deal by this weekend. It's more complicated than that.
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSpeaker Kevin McCarthy says it would take a week and a half for a debt deal to pass Congress. But both chambers have certain escape hatches in case timing slips — if lawmakers cooperate.