Kevin McCarthy appears to lose an eighth round of balloting for House speaker, leaving Congress paralyzed and GOP scrambling. Follow the votes live.
State Department: National security concerns "will only be compounded" as House speaker stalemate drags onUS State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Thursday that concerns about the national security impact of the House speaker impasse will only become more heightened as it drags on.
“The Hill has indispensable functions – an oversight role, an appropriations role, an authorization role. We want to hear their voice in our foreign policy. We want to ensure that our foreign policy has bipartisan support wherever we can. We want to ensure that in the formulation of our policy we're taking into account the prerogatives and the perspectives of members of both chambers of Congress.
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