After 15 rounds of voting in 4 days, the leader of the US Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy (Kevin McCarthy), finally settled the far-right forces in the party tonight.
After several days of negotiations and a series of concessions, McCarthy finally crossed the electoral threshold tonight with 216 votes and became the new Speaker of the House of Representatives; African-American Democratic leader Jeffries (Hakeem Jeffries) got 212 votes. It was the most voted election for a Speaker of the House of Representatives since 1859; it took 44 votes to select a president that year.
The McCarthy camp and far-right forces in the party made significant progress today: the first two rounds of voting overturned 15 no votes, just 3 votes short of the electoral threshold, and the number of boycotts in the party dropped to 6 people ; During the afternoon-to-evening recess of the House of Representatives, McCarthy continued to communicate with the opposition, and further progress was reported during the time. When McCarthy entered the night meeting, he seemed confident of winning. However, in the 14th round of voting, only two opposition MPs, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, abstained. As a result, McCarthy received only 216 votes and lost by 1 vote; McCarthy went to Going to Gates in anger, the two had a heated debate and the scene fell into chaos for a while.
McCarthy’s camp had originally planned to call for an update until noon on the 9th New York time, but things seemed to change midway through the vote. The Republican Party abandoned the update strategy and improved to enter the 15th round of votes. With the addition of 4 opposition MPs who abstained from voting, McCarthy has finally crossed the election threshold.
Under normal circumstances, the threshold for electing the president is 218 votes for more than half of the seats in the House of Representatives, but it can decrease with the number of absent and abstention members. With 6 abstentions in 15 voting rounds, the threshold for election is 215 votes.
McCarthy, 57, from California, has 16 years of experience in the House of Representatives. After entering Congress in 2007, he was promoted to lead the Republican Party in the House of Representatives in just two years.
Now holding the speaker’s gavel as he wishes, McCarthy may not be the speaker in the future. The Republican Party currently holds 222 seats in the House of Representatives, just 10 seats ahead of the Democratic Party. Even if the speaker’s election wins support from some right-wing extremists, given the lack of Republican seats, McCarthy is set to be held back often by far-right forces in the future. Also, in exchange for support, McCarthy agreed to reinstate the previous rule that only a member of the House of Representatives could table a “release from the presidency” motion, which is the equivalent of letting the far right hold a gun to his head. .
CNN reported that McCarthy’s other concessions include adding more members of the far-right “Freedom Caucus” to the Rules Committee, which can dictate the bill’s fate, giving lawmakers at least 72 hours to review the bill. bill, the amendment to loosen the House Council bill proposes restrictions and restores the right of members of Congress to cut the salaries of federal officials.
With new President McCarthy’s qualifications, the new House of Representatives will be sworn in immediately, so that the House of Representatives officially begins functioning. The new session also symbolizes the end of an era: Democratic former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi is the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives in American history, the third person in politics and the longest-serving Democratic president. After your historic term as Speaker of the House, you are no longer a candidate for the leadership of the Democratic Party.
In the order of succession of the president of the United States, the speaker of the House of Representatives is second in line after the vice president of the United States and the president of the Senate, and is also the third highest political figure in the US political arena.
