House adjourns after swearing in speaker, new members
, the House elected Republican Kevin McCarthy as the nation’s 55th speaker after days of defeats and concessions to win over hard-line Republicans. McCarthy claimed the gavel on a majority vote on the 15th ballot, the most since before the Civil War.
McCarthy finally clinched the position after some GOP defectors agreed to vote “present” rather than against him, a move that lowered the threshold for McCarthy to prevail. McCarthy, 57, first elected to the House in 2006, will succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi as speaker. The turmoil over McCarthy’s nomination is a likely preview of the House under narrow GOP control.
“That was easy, huh?” McCarthy said jokingly in remarks to the chamber early Saturday morning after the speaker’s gavel was ceremoniously passed to him by Democrat Hakeem Jeffries , the incoming minority leader. And at 1:39 a.m., five days after voting began, Hal Rogers officially swore in McCarthy, which was followed my McCarthy swearing in the rest of the House members.
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