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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Speaker Fight Reveals a Divided and Disoriented House Majority — In failing to coalesce around Kevin McCarthy for speaker, Republicans showcased divisions that portend real difficulties in governing. — WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday began their new majority rule with a chaotic …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Matt Gaetz responds after Trump urges support for McCarthy: ‘Sad!’ — Gaetz says Trump's endorsement of embattled Republican ‘change neither my view of McCarthy nor Trump nor my vote.’ — Newt Gingrich rips Republican holdouts as ‘blackmailers’: 'Don't know what their endgame is'
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John F. Harris / Politico:
After Another Failed Vote, McCarthy's Speaker Bid Is Starting to Look Pathetic — Just two months ago, when Republicans underperformed historical trends in the midterm elections and a bunch of extremist candidates lost winnable races, the consensus view among many commentators …
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on conversations with Gosar, Gaetz: ‘In chaos, anything is possible’ — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday said, “In chaos, anything is possible,” after she was seen in floor conversations with GOP Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) during the vote for House Speaker.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Trump calls for all Republicans to back McCarthy for Speaker — Former President Trump called on House Republicans to unite behind House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for the Speakership, announcing early Wednesday that he is standing by McCarthy despite opposition from some hard-line members of the party.
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The humiliation of Kevin McCarthy — Post-policy Republicans prefer posturing and tormenting each other to governing. — Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy went down to humiliating defeat in his bid to take the speaker's gavel Tuesday. Not satisfied with that, he then went down to humiliating defeat again.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
What the Speaker Fight Says about the Republican Party — On the menu today: The fight over whether Kevin McCarthy becomes the next speaker of the House continues, and after three failed votes yesterday, his prospects don't look great. The notion that 19 or 20 Republicans could force …
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Punchbowl News:
1/4/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM — The House in crisis January 4, 2023 BY PUNCHBOWL NEWS STAFF THE TOP Happy Wednesday morning. The House begins today in a state of crisis. A small but growing faction of House Republicans - 10% of the Republican conference …
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Wall Street Journal:
The GOP's Chaos Caucus Returns — A rump faction blocks McCarthy's Speaker bid, and for what? — By The Editorial Board — WSJ Opinion: Congress Is Now Officially Divided — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool. — 1x — House Republicans say they want to drain …
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Tal Kopan / The Boston Globe:
'There isn't any House': Speaker drama ripples throughout basic congressional function — WASHINGTON—As the second day of the 118th Congress dawned Wednesday, one chamber technically had no members. — “There isn't any House,” said California Democratic Representative Anna Eshoo, who has served since 1993.
Kelly Garrity / Politico:
Biden: GOP speaker drama ‘embarrassing’ and ‘not my problem’ — President Joe Biden on Wednesday called the fight unfolding in the race for House speaker “embarrassing,” after House Republicans failed to coalesce around one candidate during three separate votes Tuesday.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How long can McCarthy hang on? — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — So how does this end? And how long will it take to end it? — Those are the questions towering over the new House Republican majority …
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Tara Palmeri / Puck:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Brady Knox / Washington Examiner:
Karl Rove: House speaker saga is an ‘unmitigated disaster’ for Republicans
New York Times:
How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy
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Politico:
Biden world both humored and terrified by McCarthy meltdown
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Behind the Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
What happens if there's no House speaker
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy wasn't ‘the one’ 7 years ago. He wasn't on Tuesday, either.
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Whoever the next GOP speaker is, the job will be a living hell
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Washington Post:
George Santos had an awkward first day at the office — The New York Republican, accused of fabricating details of his biography, got a taste of scrutiny that comes with his new job — On Tuesday, looking very much like a freshman at a prep school in hell, congressman-elect George Santos wore …
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CNN:
Rep.-elect George Santos admitted to using stolen checks in Brazil in 2008, documents show
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
How we dodged a bullet with the exposé of George Santos
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Abortion Pills Can Now Be Offered at Retail Pharmacies, F.D.A. Says — Mifepristone, the first of two drugs in medication abortions, previously had to be dispensed only by clinics, doctors or a few mail-order pharmacies. Now, if local drugstores or chains like CVS agree to certain rules, they can provide it.
Lee Drutman / Undercurrent Events:
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker — Plus, my take on Independent Sinema, and: why do we all feel like political losers these days? — Hello, and Happy New Year. It's 2023, and the Republican Party is in disarray.
Pavel Polityuk / Reuters:
Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to ‘turn tide of war’ — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
No, Congress Doesn't Need More ‘Independents’ Like Sinema — Kyrsten Sinema believes that private-equity billionaires should pay a smaller income-tax rate than public-school teachers, that Medicare should not have broad authority to negotiate lower drug prices, and that America's corporations …
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Florida Sen. Rick Scott urges Senate Republicans ‘to be bold... stop caving in,’ in new nationwide ad blitz — Rick Scott argues in new spot that Senate Republicans are ‘just a speed bump’ to ‘woke socialism’ — Rick Scott: Republicans can't keep caving in to Democrats
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
New Congresswoman Fights Rival Over Witchcraft Accusation — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is demanding a retraction and apology for claims aired on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show. … Rep. Anna Paulina Luna came to Congress on her first day in office ready to do battle—not just with Democrats …
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