When House clerk Cheryl Johnson declared at 12:38 a.m. Saturday morning, “The Honorable Kevin McCarthy of the state of California, having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives,” a lot of…
Newly elected Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was crystal clear after his 15-ballot election win. National Review reported: “I do want to especially thank President Trump,” McCarthy told reporters. “I don’t think anybody should doubt his influence. He was…
The coverage of Rep. Richard Hudson needing to restrain Rep. Mike Rogers to prevent him from attacking Rep. Matt Gaetz missed something, namely, what happened. If you watch the video, Rogers approaches Gaetz and his words appear heated. But not…
Hakeem Jeffries introduced himself to a national audience, albeit one in primetime in Hawaii, in a classless way. After a week of waiting, Jeffries made everyone wait longer so that he could make a partisan speech when the moment called…
California Republican Kevin McCarthy was finally elected Speaker of the House on the fifteenth ballot Friday night after days of begging, threatening, and compromising with other Republicans. This column has never been an advocate of McCarthy because he has never…
Hopefully, it will prove easier for House Republicans to govern than it has been for them to elect a speaker. There is good reason for such hope because the enemy no longer will be Kevin McCarthy and the Ghosts of…
Just weeks after Barbra Streisand dubbed Nancy Pelosi “the best speaker there ever was,” the San Francisco Democrat already appears eclipsed. The nod of greatest speaker of the House in United States history goes to Cheryl Johnson. Okay, well, technically…
The headline at Fox News read this way: Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw blasts anti-McCarthy Republicans: ‘tired of your stupid platitudes’ House Republicans flailed through a second day of fruitless balloting, unable to elect McCarthy as House Speaker or come up…
After Republicans clinched their narrower-than-expected new House majority in November’s midterm elections, the only relevant questions for Congress-watchers seemed to pertain to what Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) impending House speakership would look like. To what extent, if any, would he…
