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The government funding bill is getting closer to the finish line.
Senate Majority LeaderMitch McConnell on Tuesday said a year-long government funding deal with the House of Representatives is “broadly appealing”. Earlier, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told House Republicans that he’d be “open to a large spending bill to finish this year’s business”. Senate Minority WhipJohn Thune said, “It’s a House-Senate dynamic…a lot of times can…
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The results of the election will be live on the news.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has announced that he’d run for Speaker, has said that Democrats spent trillions of dollars under Joe Biden and that the calculus is different now than when Donald Trump took office. However, he added that Republicans were willing to raise the debt ceiling under Trump, as long as it…
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Kevin McCarthy is expected to lead the House GOP.
US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that he does not have any restrictions about which committees Georgia’s Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene can serve in the House of Representatives. Greene has said that she wants a seat on the House Oversight Committee, which will play a key role in GOP-led investigations in a majority.
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McCarthy faces a rocky road to speakership, given the GOP’s election showing.
During a private meeting last year, US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said former President Donald Trump had no idea his supporters were carrying out the attack on the US Capitol, according to previously released audio. McCarthy told two police officers who defended the US Capitol that he considered asking Trump to step down after…
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McCarthy is under attack as the former president seeks support for a campaign.
The top Republican in the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has said he does not have the 218 votes he needs to become the Speaker of the House. In the GOP’s internal leadership elections, McCarthy only needs a simple majority to win his party’s nomination for Speaker. Biggs has said he will challenge McCarthy…
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Election results and news can be seen live.
Republican Senator Pat Toomey said he’s “not sure” if he’ll support US House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy in the upcoming leadership elections. He added, “I don’t think he’s going to be my first choice to lead.” “There will be a challenge to (McCarthy) as a speaker candidate,” Toomey further said. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump said…
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GOP leaders are planning on having tense talks after the election.
US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s opponents are considering a long-shot challenge to him as the leader, according to reports. “I’ve heard from multiple of our constituents who question the wisdom of proceeding forward with that leadership,” Arizona Rep Andy Biggs said, adding that there needs to be a “frank conversation” about who they elect…
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The Republican agenda is being outlined by Kevin McCarthy days before the elections.
US House Speaker-designate Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday said that he has no restrictions on which committees actress-turned- congresswoman Diane Greene can serve. ” Members request different committees and as we go through the steering committee…we’ll look at it,” he added. Greene, who is seeking the post of House speaker, has said she wants to sit…
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Kevin McCarthy outlines the Republicans’ agenda.
US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said that the first thing he would ask President Donald Trump to do is not to call “half the nation idiots” and say “things about them because they have a difference of opinion”. “I’ll ask the president to not to call half the nation idiots or say things…