Tag: Patrick McHenry

As Dysfunction Reigns on Capitol Hill, Lawmakers Head for the Exits

The departure of committee chairs like McHenry and Representative Kay Granger, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, will mean a loss in institutional knowledge. (Granger, who is 80 years old, is also reaching the end of a term limit for leading a committee.) But in a statement on Tuesday, McHenry said that concerns about […]

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The GOP’s Last Resort Speaker Solution Is Going Down in Flames, Too

Even among his allies, Jordan’s shtick is beginning to “wear a little thin,” and he has possibly “worn out his welcome,” one senior House GOP member told Fox News’s Chad Pergram. Jordan’s long-shot bid to become speaker has only grown more fraught as the days have dragged on. In his first floor vote, 20 Republicans […]

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The Real Reason House Republicans Can’t Elect a Speaker

But the math isn’t the culprit. Given the slim majority the House GOP possesses, such dealmaking is tricky but not impossible: You can lose five Republicans (depending on absences or abstentions, that number could be higher) and still become speaker. McCarthy’s nomination was held up for 15 ballots until he made a deal. The McCarthy […]

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The Republican Institutionalists Are Taking Revenge on Jim Jordan

Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Republican who supported Jordan, compared the anti-Jordan faction to the “hard-liners” who stymied McCarthy in January. “The hard-liners, for the most part, aren’t any more conservative than the so-called ‘moderates.’ They’re just angrier, and more willing to use tactics that are based in emotion,” Crenshaw said. People usually use the word […]

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Pour One Out for Jim Jordan’s Dream of Becoming House Speaker

The effort faces an uphill battle—electronic media coverage of criminal cases has been prohibited in federal courts for the better part of the last century. So far, video access hasn’t been allowed during any of Trump’s pretrial hearings in the case, though an overflow courtroom with a video feed has been set up for reporters. […]

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Jim Jordan Admits Defeat, Throwing Republicans Into Even More Disarray

The effort faces an uphill battle—electronic media coverage of criminal cases has been prohibited in federal courts for the better part of the last century. So far, video access hasn’t been allowed during any of Trump’s pretrial hearings in the case, though an overflow courtroom with a video feed has been set up for reporters. […]

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Jim Jordan’s Big Day Ends in Chaos and Failure

“It may look like the same game, but it’s not the same game,” insisted Representative Carlos Gimenez, who supported McCarthy in the vote, comparing Jordan’s iffy support to the 15 votes for the former speaker. Gimenez expressed frustration with the hardball tactics used by Jordan’s supporters to attempt to garner support. (Consider: the aggressive support […]

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Why the House of Representatives Might Never Be the Same Again

“If we go on [without a speaker for] a month, and no additional support for Israel has been provided and it becomes much clearer that that is tied up in a dysfunctional Congress, then I think it’s possible that the international community starts to reconsider what America’s future role in the world will be,” Thorning […]

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Kevin McCarthy Being Ousted Proves Republicans Ruin Everything—Including Their Own Party

Photo: Drew Angerer (Getty Images) On Tuesday, all Democrats and eight Republicans voted to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker in a historic 216-210 vote. This is the first time something like this has ever happened, leaving the House in disarray and confusion. The Week C-SPAN Became Must-See TV Off English Though an interim speaker […]

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McCarthy Allies Are Taking Revenge on Democrats—One Office at a Time

Depending on how many people show up for the final vote, McCarthy can only afford to lose between four to six Republicans. So McCarthy’s best bet is to win over some of the aforementioned lawmakers. Burchett is the only Republican on this list who didn’t repeatedly block McCarthy’s bid for House speaker back in January, […]

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McCarthy Allies Are Taking Revenge on Democrats, in Pettiest Way Possible

Depending on how many people show up for the final vote, McCarthy can only afford to lose between four to six Republicans. So McCarthy’s best bet is to win over some of the aforementioned lawmakers. Burchett is the only Republican on this list who didn’t repeatedly block McCarthy’s bid for House speaker back in January, […]

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