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MCCARTHY ELECTED HOUSE SPEAKER IN ROWDY POST-MIDNIGHT VOTE

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI2 hours ago

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reacts during the 12th round of voting for
speaker in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a
speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP
Photo/Andrew Harnik)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a
historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his
own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested
the new GOP majority’s ability to govern.

“My father always told me, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,”
McCarthy told cheering fellow Republicans.

Eager to confront President Joe Biden and the Democrats, he promised subpoenas
and investigations. “Now the hard work begins,” the California Republican
declared. He credited former President Donald Trump for standing with him and
for making late calls “helping get those final votes.”

Republicans roared in celebration when his victory was announced, chanting “USA!
USA!”

Finally elected, McCarthy took the oath of office, and the House was finally
able to swear in newly elected lawmakers who had been waiting all week for the
chamber to formally open and the 2023-24 session to begin.

After four days of grueling ballots, McCarthy flipped more than a dozen
conservative holdouts to become supporters, including the chairman of the
chamber’s Freedom Caucus.

He fell one vote short on the 14th ballot, and the chamber became raucous,
unruly.

McCarthy strode to the back of the chamber to confront Republican Matt Gaetz,
sitting with Lauren Boebert and other holdouts. Fingers were pointed, words
exchanged and violence apparently just averted.

At one point, Republican Mike Rogers of Alabama, shouting, approached Gaetz
before another Republican, Richard Hudson of North Carolina, physically pulled
him back.

“Stay civil!” someone shouted.

Order restored, the Republicans fell in line to give McCarthy the post he had
fought so hard to gain, House speaker, second in the line of succession to the
presidency.

The few remaining Republican holdouts began voting present, dropping the tally
he needed. It was the end of a bitter standoff that had shown the strengths and
fragility of American democracy.

The tally was 216-212 with Democrats voting for leader Hakeem Jeffries, and six
Republican holdouts to McCarthy simply voting present.

The night’s stunning turn of events came after McCarthy agreed to many of the
detractors’ demands — including the reinstatement of a longstanding House rule
that would allow any single member to call a vote to oust him from office.

Even as McCarthy secured the votes he needs, he will emerge as a weakened
speaker, having given away some powers and constantly under the threat of being
booted by his detractors.

But he could also be emboldened as a survivor of one of the more brutal fights
for the gavel in U.S. history. Not since the Civil War era has a speaker’s vote
dragged through so many rounds of voting.

The showdown that has stymied the new Congress came against the backdrop of the
second anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, which shook the
country when a mob of Trump’s supporters tried to stop Congress from certifying
the Republican’s 2020 election defeat to Biden.

At a Capitol event Friday, some lawmakers, all but one of them Democrats,
observed a moment of silence and praised officers who helped protect Congress on
that day. And at the White House, Biden handed out medals to officers and others
who fought the attackers.

“America is a land of laws, not chaos,” he said.

At the afternoon speaker’s vote, a number of Republicans tiring of the spectacle
temporarily walked out when one of McCarthy’s most ardent challengers, Gaetz,
railed against the GOP leader.

Contours of a deal with conservative holdouts who had been blocking McCarthy’s
rise had emerged the night before, and took hold after four dismal days and 14
failed votes in an intraparty standoff unseen in modern times.

One significant former holdout — Republican Scott Perry, chairman of the
conservative Freedom Caucus, who had been a leader of Trump’s efforts to
challenge the 2020 election — tweeted after his switched vote for McCarthy,
“We’re at a turning point.”

Trump may have played a role in swaying some holdouts — calling into a meeting
of Republican freshmen the night before, and calling other members ahead of
voting. He had urged Republicans to wrap up their public dispute.

As Republican Mike Garcia of California nominated McCarthy on an earlier ballot
Friday, he also thanked the U.S. Capitol Police, who were given a standing
ovation for protecting lawmakers and the legislative seat of democracy on Jan.
6, 2021.

But in nominating the Democratic leader Jeffries, Democrat Jim Clyburn of South
Carolina recalled the horror of that day. “The eyes of the country are on us
today,” he told his colleagues.

Electing a speaker is normally an easy, joyous task for a party that has just
won majority control. But not this time: About 200 Republicans were stymied by
20 far-right colleagues who said McCarthy was not conservative enough. Only the
12th ballot on Friday afternoon did McCarthy start making gains, flipping their
votes to support.

The House adjourned Friday until late in the night, giving time for last-minute
negotiations and allowing two absent Republican colleagues to return to
Washington.

The disorganized start to the new Congress pointed to difficulties ahead with
Republicans now in control of the House, much the way that some past Republican
speakers, including John Boehner, had trouble leading a rebellious right flank.
The result: government shutdowns, standoffs and Boehner’s early retirement when
conservatives threatened to oust him.

The agreement McCarthy presented to the holdouts from the Freedom Caucus and
others centers around rules changes they have been seeking for months. Those
changes would shrink the power of the speaker’s office and give rank-and-file
lawmakers more influence in drafting and passing legislation.

At the core of the emerging deal was the reinstatement of a House rule that
would allow a single lawmaker to make a motion to “vacate the chair,”
essentially calling a vote to oust the speaker. McCarthy had resisted allowing a
return to the longstanding rule that former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had done away
with, because it had been held over the head of Boehner. But it appears McCarthy
had no other choice.

Other wins for the holdouts are more obscure and include provisions in the
proposed deal to expand the number of seats available on the House Rules
Committee; to mandate 72 hours for bills to be posted before votes; and to
promise to try for a constitutional amendment that would impose federal limits
on the number of terms a person could serve in the House and Senate.

___

Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick and Kevin Freking and video
journalists Nathan Ellgren and Mike Pesoli contributed to this report.

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