WASHINGTON — Newly empowered House Republicans are preparing a wide-ranging investigation into law enforcement and national security agencies, raising the prospect of politically charged fights with the Biden administration over access to sensitive information like highly classified intelligence and the details of continuing criminal inquiries by the Justice Department. The House plans to vote this…
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Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy
WASHINGTON — Smarting after a dozen years under iron-fisted Republican rule, House Democrats promised to do things differently and open up the institution when they regained majority control in 2007. One of the changes they instituted was to allow any lawmaker to offer amendments to the voluminous spending bills once they hit the floor. Republicans…
Biden to Visit Southern Border Amid Fresh Crackdown on Migrants
“Civil rights advocates & Members of Congress are outraged by these policies because they flout refugee law & will unleash more suffering at the border, w/ disparate harm to Black, Brown & Indigenous asylum seekers,” Heidi Altman, the policy director at the National Immigrant Justice Center, a liberal human rights group, said on Twitter. “The…
Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Drama Raises New Fears on Debt Limit
WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy of California finally secured the House speakership in a dramatic vote ending around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, but the dysfunction in his party and the deal he struck to win over holdout Republicans also raised the risks of persistent political gridlock that could destabilize the American financial system. Economists, Wall Street…
What Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Election Could Mean for the House
WASHINGTON — Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California won his job by bowing to the demands of a group of far-right Republican dissidents to overhaul how the House operates, effectively diluting his own power while increasing theirs. The protracted floor fight that finally led to his election early on Saturday morning made for a historic and…
Inside the Final Hours of Kevin McCarthy’s Speaker Fight
WASHINGTON — Confident that he was about to win the speaker’s gavel after a torturous four-day stretch of defeats, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California sat grinning late Friday night in his chair on the House floor. Then his face dropped. As the voting dragged on in his 14th attempt to become speaker, it had become…
Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on House Majority
WASHINGTON — Representative Kevin McCarthy’s historically long slog to become speaker of the House has made one thing abundantly clear: The United States should brace for the likelihood of a Congress in perpetual disarray for the next two years. The recipe for the chaos already existed: A toxic combination of the Republicans’ slim governing majority,…
McCarthy Wins Speakership on 15th Vote After Concessions to Hard Right
With Mr. McCarthy elected, he immediately turned to swearing in the 434 members of the House to officially seat the 118th Congress. Republicans announced that they would wait until Monday to consider a package of rules for the chamber, which is expected to enshrine many of the compromises Mr. McCarthy made to win his post….
McCarthy, All Carrots and No Sticks, Grins His Way Toward the Speakership
That brand of bonhomie extended to the Tea Party era, when Mr. McCarthy and his fellow self-styled “Young Guns” Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Eric Cantor of Virginia helped recruit a phalanx of populist-inspired candidates who helped sweep their party into the House majority, and Mr. McCarthy into leadership. Mr. McCarthy watched as the…
Live Vote Count: Tracking the House Speaker Votes
On Friday, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California made progress in winning over some of the ultraconservative Republicans who have so far opposed his bid for House speaker. In the 13th vote to name a House speaker, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California has received one new vote from a previous detractor. A table that shows the…