View as Webpage Republicans tried again last week—and failed—to elect a Speaker of the House. Multiple floor votes left the party’s latest nominee, Jim Jordan (R-OH), woefully short of the necessary 217 votes with opposition growing and the entire scene turning uglier by the hour. Some GOP members opposed to Jordan have faced death threats […]

View as Webpage For the second week in a row, the United States House of Representatives has no speaker–and no progress toward funding the government beyond mid-November, providing new aid to allies at war in Europe and the Middle East, or anything else. House Republicans headed into the weekend after a fruitless, embarrassing effort to […]

View as Webpage It was never a matter of if—only when. Kevin McCarthy sealed his fate back in January, when he agreed to allow a single member of the House of Representatives to file a motion to vacate the speaker’s chair. That he did so in order to “win” the gavel on a 15th vote […]