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☆ House speaker race live updates: Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise run to replace Kevin McCarthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Mike Hayes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Two candidates have stepped up to fill the vacuum: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, who has the backing of former President Donald Trump. 2 House Republican after the speaker, Scalise has been a prominent figure in the conference and had long been seen as either a potential successor, or rival, to McCarthy. Before he became majority leader, Scalise served as House GOP whip, a role focused on vote counting and ensuring support for key party priorities. The majority leader, his current role, oversees the House floor and schedules legislation for votes. Read more about the race for a new House speaker.

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The House is set to elect a new speaker in the days ahead, following Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster and announcement that he would not run again. Even so, a number of House Republicans are expected to jockey for the gavel, teeing up an eventful speaker fight to come. For now, Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has stepped into the role of “speaker pro tempore” until a new speaker is elected. House Republicans are expected to meet on Oct. 10 for a candidate forum, setting up a vote the following day. These are the possible candidates for House speaker:Candidates Who Announced a Bid for Speaker:Rep. Steve Scalise, Louisiana Republican:The No.

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☆ House business is on ice while GOP finds new speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Annie Grayer | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The House calendar remained officially stuck on October 3 – Tuesday – the date when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted and left the chamber without adjourning. “The House of Representatives is effectively frozen,” Rep. Garret Graves, a Louisiana Republican, told reporters. As speaker pro tempore, Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina can perform tasks like recessing the House, adjourning the chamber and recognizing speaker nominations, according to the House Practices Guide. “Until we figure out how we have another speaker of the House, everything stops,” Rep. Kelly Armstrong, a North Dakota Republican on the House Oversight Committee, told CNN. While House Republicans intend to hold a candidate forum for would-be speakers on Tuesday, it could take time for Republicans to unify behind a single one.

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☆ Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted as House speaker—Here's what's next for Congress and the GOP
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailRep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted as House speaker—Here's what's next for Congress and the GOPRepublican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina is now the interim speaker until a new permanent speaker is elected. The GOP conference could nominate their candidate for speaker as soon as next week.

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☆ The GOP's new interim House speaker kicked Nancy Pelosi out of her hideaway office so he could use it himself
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

One of his first acts was to tell Rep. Nancy Pelosi to vacate her hideaway office. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe new Republican interim House speaker made one of his first acts in office the ordering of Rep. Nancy Pelosi to immediately vacate her hideaway office. The news outlet, which reviewed the message, said the email outlined how the room was being reassigned by McHenry for "speaker office use." AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to a Pelosi spokesperson, who spoke to Politico, House Minority Leader Hakeen Jeffries' staff helped pack up Pelosi's office on Tuesday night. Representatives for McHenry, Pelosi, and the House Administration Committee did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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The House vote to oust Kevin McCarthy from his post on Tuesday marked a historic first, as a group of conservatives sided with Democrats to successfully boot him from the speakership. Immediately following the vote to oust McCarthy, a temporary speaker – Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina – took over based upon a list of succession that the former speaker submitted in January. In his first move in the temporary role, McHenry recessed the chamber to “discuss the path forward,” before lawmakers returned to their districts for the week. Following the vote, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was ordered to vacate her Capitol hideaway. Pelosi called the move a “sharp departure from tradition,” as other former speakers have been permitted to retain offices near the House chamber beyond their tenure.

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☆ House votes to oust Kevin McCarthy as speaker, throwing the chamber back into chaos
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The House voted to vacate the Office of the Speaker on Tuesday, booting Kevin McCarthy from his job. The House, under interim speaker Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, will now have to hold speaker elections once again, and it's not clear where that will lead. In 1910, House Speaker Joseph Cannon called the motion himself as he faced a mutiny from his own party, daring his own members to oust him. The Saturday measure, while supported by most House Republicans, ultimately passed with more Democratic than Republican votes. Gaetz and dozens of other House Republicans — potentially more than half — oppose sending more aid to the besieged country.

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☆ Congress just voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker for the first time in history
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Sean Conlon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailCongress just voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker for the first time in historyCongress just voted to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House speaker, which is the first time in history that the chamber has removed its leader. Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina was appointed to lead the House of Representatives as speaker pro tempore. McHenry, a McCarthy ally, declared the House in recess following the vote.

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☆ Here are the 8 House Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy as House speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Piper Hudspeth Blackburn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

CNN —A group of eight House Republicans joined with Democrats Tuesday in a historic vote to remove Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy as speaker. The vote in the House of Representatives on the motion to vacate was 216-210, with Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz leading the effort. Because of the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House and a Democratic conference united against him, McCarthy needed the support of nearly all of his party’s members to keep the gavel. It was not immediately clear who would replace the California Republican, and GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina was named speaker in the interim. Here are the House Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy:

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☆ Pelosi says interim House speaker McHenry has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Haley Talbot | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said the newly named interim speaker, GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, has ordered her to vacate her office in the Capitol building. She does maintain her regular office in the Cannon House office building. An email sent from McHenry’s office to Pelosi’s office just after 6 p.m. Tuesday evening that was viewed by CNN, stated, “Going to reassign h-132 for speaker office use. As speaker pro tempore, McHenry’s official title, the congressman will preside over the vote and selection of the House’s next speaker, with the ability to recess the chamber, adjourn it and recognize speaker nominations. Kevin McCarthy as speaker was required to submit a confidential list to the clerk of people “in the order in which each shall act as Speaker pro tempore in the case of a vacancy,” according to House rules.

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☆ Republicans have temporarily played themselves out of the presidential line of succession after McCarthy's historic ouster
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

House Republicans have temporarily forced themselves out of the presidential line of succession. As a result, House Republicans for the time being would be skipped over entirely. Never before in history has the line of succession gone past the vice president, meaning most of this discussion is purely academic. Still, House Republicans are currently risking what they would be rightfully entitled to thanks to their slim majority following the 2022 midterm elections. Many legal scholars have long had issues with the Truman-era law governing presidential succession.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker “is hereby declared vacant. ”For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil. “Chaos is Speaker McCarthy,” Gaetz said on the floor, suggesting a series of reforms could make Washington work better. “Shocking … just the finality of it," said Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Relations Committee. Republicans will try to coalesce around a new leader after McCarthy ruled out another bid to become speaker.

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The House narrowly voted to oust Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday, dooming the House speaker to a fate that seemed almost guaranteed since he took the gavel in January, with a group of rebels in his conference nipping at his heels. “The office of speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant,” the clerk announced as the vote concluded. A temporary speaker – Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina – is expected to take over based upon a list of succession that McCarthy submitted in January, according to House rules . But in 2015, McCarthy’s speaker bid abruptly ended amid pushback from right-wing lawmakers who have long seen him as insufficiently conservative. I’m the 55th speaker of the House.”Without McCarthy at the helm, the House is expected to soon vote to elect another speaker.

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McCarthy, though, has stopped short of committing to putting a Senate-passed short-term spending bill on the floor, knowing that doing so could mean a call for his ouster. During a call with the Republican conference Saturday afternoon, McCarthy pushed members to rally around a short-term spending bill that includes funds for border security. That would give House Republicans a position from which to begin negotiations with the Senate. It’s taking away leverage from House Republicans,” said GOP Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana. But House Republicans marked their bills up at far lower levels after a rebellion from conservatives.

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Instead, he has acceded to a small band led by those instigating his ouster, even if that means closing federal offices. All the while, McCarthy has retreated from his budget deal with Biden months ago that established the spending threshold for the year. Democrats have been eager to lay blame for the impending shutdown on McCarthy and the dysfunction in the House. Biden has called on McCarthy to stick to the annual spending numbers they negotiated to raise the nation’s borrowing limit. He argues that House Republicans need to pass their own bills at the lower numbers to to strengthen their hand in negotiations.

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☆ The New Congress, Part 1: House
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Ylan Mui | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailThe New Congress, Part 1: HouseThe "red wave" didn't materialize, but Republicans still managed to win back control of the House of Representatives, which includes claiming committee chairmanships. The powerful House Financial Services Committee will be run by Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina. He'll share his views on. the Republican-led chamber's legislative priorities, and his committee's investigative priorities, including next month's hearing on the stunning collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX. CNBC's Ylan Mui interviewed him at the 2022 CNBC CFO Council Summit on November 30, 2022.

☆ Some of Congress' youngest members have famously flamed out. Can a candidate be too young to serve?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

More youthful representation would better serve the country, young members of Congress say. But members of Congress, political scientists, and strategists generally don't blame age for these downfalls — leaders both young and old are prone to controversy. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history in 2019 as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 29. "I was always accustomed to being the youngest," Schatz told Insider at the Capitol. The nation needs "more principled members of Congress," Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, 35, told Insider, adding: "It doesn't matter their age."

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