Category: Politics

Well it finally happened. Rep. Kevin McCarthy has won the majority of votes and is now Speaker of the House for the 118th Congress. The scuffle stuff is here, in case you . . .

MULTIPLE UPDATES BELOW – LIVE STREAM BELOW – 15TH VOTE UNDERWAY This is a breaking story and will be updated with more video. The short version is, Kevin McCarthy did NOT have . . .

SEE UPDATES AT END OF POST Rep. Matt Gaetz left the House chamber before they called his name and didn’t come back until after they moved on to the next name on . . .

We are now in the evening session of day 4 of the elections to choose a House Speaker, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy was nominated again on the 14th ballot at 10:07 pm . . .

Rep. Lauren Boebert returned to the scene of a big throwdown from earlier in the week when she appeared with Sean Hannity on Friday ahead of the expected final vote on the . . .

Gavin Newsom’s inauguration after being reelected took place on Friday, and during the event an intrepid supporter of Gov. Ron DeSantis attempted to exercise freedom of speech to raise awareness, and was . . .

Marathon loser of House speaker votes Kevin McCarthy told CNN shortly after the 13th ballot — in which he finally had the most votes but still did not get the majority — . . .

Last year Governor DeSantis took away Disney’s special district they were given back in 1967. He vowed then that Disney should not be given special treatment and should be treated like every . . .

Governor DeSantis has just declared a state of emergency in Florida over the alarming influx of migrants brought to his state by “Biden’s lawless immigration policies”. Because of this DeSantis has activated . . .

Along with 14 others, Rep. Byron Donalds changed his vote today to Kevin McCarthy in the vote for Speaker. He just made a statement on Twitter about the negotations he’s been having . . .

We are now in day four of the elections to choose a House Speaker and the voting resumes at noon. With all the deal talk this morning, especially that there is no . . .

It’s just being reported that both Kevin McCarthy and Chip Roy have announced they have made a tenative deal. It was announced on a GOP conference all, according to reports. Here’s what . . .

We’ve been reporting on a potential deal between Kevin McCarthy and his Republican opposition since yesterday morning and thus far nothing has changed. So here we go again, reporting this morning on . . .

Lauren Boebert sat down with Michael Knowles to discuss the negotiations with Kevin McCarthy and what’s happened to break that trust. Boebert explained how they began negotiating last summer with McCarthy, but . . .

There’s a bunch of new reporting tonight on a potential breakthrough deal that may get McCarthy a lot closer to the votes he needs to become Speaker. There are no specifics yet . . .

McCarthy has needed 218 votes to become Speaker of the House but that has now changed. One House Republican, a McCarthy supporter, is unavailable to vote tonight and most of tomorrow and . . .

Day three of votes will begin soon for the Speaker of the House and hopefully we’ll have a different outcome than the last two days. Congress begins their day three session at . . .

Last night Sean Hannity got into it with Lauren Boebert over refusing to vote for Kevin McCarthy for Speaker. The way Hannity went after her, you’d have thought he was interviewing a . . .

Ahead of another day of voting for Speaker of the House, McCarthy got in a room with his opposition and made new concessions to try and get them on board with his . . .

Dan Crenshaw has been very critical of the 20 Republicans who refuse to vote for McCarthy for Speaker. But today he appeared to take it to a whole new level, referring to . . .