The last time it took more than one round of voting to pick a speaker at the start of a new Congress was a century ago.
Republicans have failed to elect a speaker in a nail-biting first three rounds of voting.
The new US Congress was plunged into disarray on Tuesday as renegade right-wing Republicans blocked favourite Kevin McCarthy from becoming speaker of the House of Representatives in a series of humiliating votes seen as a rebuke to the party establishment. The 57-year-old needed 218 votes in the lower chamber, which flipped to a narrow 222-212 Republican majority after last year's midterm elections.
Mr McCarthy has long coveted the role, having withdrawn from the race in 2015 amid a number of blunders and a right-wing revolt.Raphael Warnock has won a US Senate runoff. Here's what it means for the Democrats, and Donald TrumpThis time he was once again tripped up by far-right rebels, despite bowing to their calls to push aggressive investigations of Democrats including President Joe Biden after taking over the House.
The last time it took more than one round of voting to pick a speaker at the start of a new Congress was a century ago, in 1923. One speaker selection process in 1855 took 133 rounds of voting over two months.
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