“If we don’t have a speaker we can’t do any of the things that all of us want to do. We will either be the party that comes together to advance our agenda or let just a handful make it impossible to accomplish that agenda.”
The House adjourns until Wednesday after Republicans, who recently gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives during November’s midterm elections, failed to elect a speaker.
McCarthy has run into strong opposition from his political right, who think the Californian should not lead the recently GOP-flipped chamber. McCarthy garnered only 203 Republican votes the first two rounds, as all 212 Democrats voted all three rounds for recently-elected minority leader, New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries. During the third round Tuesday afternoon,
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