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Deadlocked House adjourns until Thursday after Kevin McCarthy racks up 3 more defeats

WASHINGTON — The House adjourned without electing a speaker on Wednesday after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed in his fourth, fifth and sixth attempts to secure the post he has long desired.

Los Angeles Times

Still no House Speaker: Mary Miller, from downstate Illinois, emerges as hard-line McCarthy opponent

Illinois Republican Darin LaHood, a Kevin McCarthy backer involved in negotiations, told the Sun-Times on Wednesday night that “I believe we are making progress. The two sides are working diligently together.”

Chicago Sun-Times

House adjourns as speakership evades McCarthy even after sixth vote

Republicans push back deadline of electing new speaker to noon on Thursday, after six failed votes in two days

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Deadlocked House adjourns until Thursday after Kevin McCarthy racks up 3 more defeats

WASHINGTON — The House adjourned without electing a speaker on Wednesday evening after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed in his fourth, fifth and sixth attempts to secure the post he has long desired.

Los Angeles Times

House without a speaker as McCarthy fails to secure majority in six rounds of voting – as it happened

House adjourns until 8pm ET as Republicans remain deadlocked – follow all the latest politics news

The Guardian - US

Matt Gaetz’s demands include a committee to investigate FBI, as he calls McCarthy a ‘desperate guy’

Florida representative one of leaders of faction blocking Kevin McCarthy election as House Speaker

The Independent UK

Deadlocked US House adjourns without electing speaker for second day

House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting Wednesday, unable to either elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.

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McCarthy delays next vote until Thursday after six humiliating defeats in Speaker bid

Republicans see little progress after marathon of votes

The Independent UK

US House has no members, no rules as speaker race drags on

As Republicans squabble over who will be the next speaker, there are essentially no members in the U.S. House of Representatives — only members-elect

The Independent UK

‘Best season of CSPAN … ever’: Twitter has a field day with House GOP’s speaker vote debacle

Even Wikipedia got in on the action

The Independent UK

Texas Republicans urge Chip Roy and other McCarthy opponents to let Congress get to work

Texans poised to assume committee leadership are growing frustrated by Republicans blocking Kevin McCarthy’s election for speaker because Congress can’t get to work until a leader is in place.

The Texas Tribune

Late-night talks yield no breakthrough in speaker battle - Roll Call

A few of Kevin McCarthy's opponents say they’ll never vote for him, while others have continued negotiating with the California Republican.

Roll Call

AOC fires back after GOP Rep Kat Cammack accuses Democrats of getting drunk during speaker debacle: ‘If only!’

Rep Cammack’s speech fails to rally Republicans around Kevin McCarthy

The Independent UK

Deadlocked House adjourns until evening after Kevin McCarthy racks up yet another defeat

WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struck out three more times Wednesday in his quest to be elected speaker. The chamber voted to adjourn until Wednesday evening, delaying a seventh vote and allowing McCarthy more time to negotiate an elusive compromise and put to an end what has been…

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The House last struggled to elect a speaker 100 years ago. Here's what happened

Both Kevin McCarthy and the nominee for speaker a century ago represented a party establishment regarded with hostility by a potent faction of the party. They became the embodiment of its grievances.

Salon

AOC floats speaker deal with GOP

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats would be interested if they can get some committee chair assignments

Chicago Sun-Times

Kevin McCarthy got the GOP conference he deserves

After abandoning any shred of principle and conviction he once had to position himself for the speaker job, McCarthy accommodated a new Republican body that was decreasingly interested in principle and conviction and increasingly interested in themselves.

The Independent UK

Against McCarthy: Hard-right members stage GOP rebellion

The Republicans opposing Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become the next House speaker generally have made their mark as part of the GOP’s ultra conservative wing

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Interview: Libertarian Former Rep. Justin Amash Is Willing to Serve as Compromise House Speaker

"We have an oligarchy right now," says Amash.

Tribune News Service

Patricia Murphy: House Republicans need a Nancy Pelosi of their own

U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy may have jumped the gun Monday morning when he and his staff moved their boxes into the elaborate Capitol office suite that outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi occupied until then.

Tribune News Service

Ocasio-Cortez opens door to potential deal with Republicans on compromise speaker candidate

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Wednesday refused to rule out supporting a possible compromise candidate for speaker of the House as Republican drama showed no sign of dying down.

Los Angeles Times

Kevin McCarthy racks up yet another defeat as he loses fifth vote for House speaker

WASHINGTON — House Republicans delivered Rep. Kevin McCarthy two more stunning defeats in the chamber’s fourth and fifth votes for speaker Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times

Kevin McCarthy loses fourth vote for speaker despite Trump’s endorsement

WASHINGTON — House Republicans delivered Kevin McCarthy a stunning defeat in the chamber’s fourth vote for speaker Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Seventh time’s a charm? McCarthy loses another round of speaker votes as GOP chaos goes on another day

No party in control of the House has failed to elect a speaker on first vote in 100 years

The Independent UK

‘The fever’s got to break’: When will there be a House speaker?

Members-elect from across GOP agree there’s no plan how to get past impasse and future looks uncertain

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