As the first week of the 118th Congress comes to a close, a House speaker has not yet been selected.
RELATED: House of Representatives continues vote for new speaker
Though House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy has consistently won a majority of Republican votes, some 20 conservatives refuse to cast votes in his favor, preferring candidates like Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., or Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla. Without those votes, McCarthy is short of the votes needed to win the powerful position.
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We need 200 more Matt Geatz. The people sick of the corrupt in DC
Wait.America needs 200 more sex offenders?!
Nice. Diversity of thought rather than the lockstep cult of the Dems. Here you cn have debate and different thoughts, not the ‘drink the koolaid’ of the last couple years.
you voted for this America people American voters are to blame for this.