The US House of Representatives adjourns in disarray, failing to pick a new speaker after a group a of hardline Republicans refused to back the party's frontrunner Kevin McCarthy.
abc.net.au/news/republican-kevin-mccarthy-loses-us-congress-house-speaker-votes/101825310Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed in three rounds of voting to become House speaker, a historic defeat with no clear way out as House Republicans dig in for a long, messy start for the new Congress.
Needing 218 votes in the full House, Mr McCarthy got just 203 in two rounds — less even than Democrat Hakeem Jeffries in the GOP-controlled chamber. But it was not at all clear how the embattled GOP leader could rebound after becoming the first House speaker nominee in 100 years to fail to win the gavel from his fellow party members on the initial vote.
"We all came here to get things done," second-ranking Republican Steve Scalise said in a rousing speech urging his colleagues to drop their protest.
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