The California Republican won on the 15th round of voting, following an intense scene on the House floor involving Rep. Matt Gaetz
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Leading up to the fourteenth ballot slated for 10 p.m. on Thursday, McCarthy and his allies were ready to pop the champagne. Both parties’ leaders were telling their caucuses to be prepared to stay until the wee hours of the morning.
“That was easy, huh? I never thought I’d get up here,” McCarthy said after taking the gavel. He jokingly warned the Democratic House leader, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York: “Two years ago, I got one hundred percent of the vote from my conference.” For his part, McCarthy tried to downplay the idea that the protracted conflict was a bad omen for a highly dysfunctional House in the coming years. “This is the great part,” McCarthy told reporters Friday night. “Because it took this long, now we learned how to govern. So now we’ll be able to get the job done.”McCarthy has agreed to will make it exceedingly more difficult to pass legislation, particularly when it comes time to fund the government later this year.
The House came back to session later in the evening to allow for two McCarthy allies who had left town—Reps. Ken Buck of Colorado and Wesley Hunt of Texas—to come back to get him over the top. The House’s inability to pick a Speaker for so long stretched the saga past the mark set in 1923, when it took the chamber 13 rounds of voting over three days. On Tuesday, the first day of the new congressional term, the House failed to elect a Speaker on the first ballot for the first time in a century.
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