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Caron Lindsay

Popcorn at 5pm – Will the House of Representatives elect a Speaker today, and at what cost?

By Caron Lindsay | Wed 4th January 2023 - 3:48 pm

If you thought that 2023 might be a less wild political year, you would have been proved wrong just 3 days in – at least on the other side of the Atlantic.

The first act of any new session of Congress is for the House of Representatives to elect a new Speaker. Usually this is straightforward, with the leader of the party which holds the majority getting the job. Not this time. For the first time in a century, Republican Kevin McCarthy failed to achieve the required 218 votes. Which is a bit of a worry for him, seeing as he …

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