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- Kevin McCarthy ‘Agreed to Cut Aid to Ukraine’ to Secure US Speaker Role https://english.almanar.com.lb/1759309 11 comments
- Kevin McCarthy calls House speaker chaos "embarrassing" for GOP https://www.axios.com/2023/10/22/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-gop-chaos 82 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy appears to say Trump has told him he wants to be House speaker https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1001727/kevin-mccarthy-says-trump-has-told-him-he-wants-to-be-house-speaker 297 comments politics
- Will Kevin McCarthy's cozying to Trump make him House speaker? https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-02-25/will-kevin-mccarthys-cozying-to-trump-make-him-house-speaker 16 comments politics
- Why California's Kevin McCarthy is having a hard time locking down the speaker's job — again http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mccarthy-house-speaker-20180530-story.html 31 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy Drops Out of House Speaker Race http://nytimes.com/2015/10/09/us/politics/house-speaker-vote.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1&referer= 3 comments politics
- House Speaker Mike Johnson Is Hit With The Same Problems That Vexed Kevin McCarthy https://www.huffpost.com/entry/house-speaker-mike-johnson-rebuilding-republican-slim-majority_n_65590383e4b0998d69a07f41 61 comments politics
- ‘They scaled walls, they brought ropes’: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s own words contradict January 6 footage used by Tucker Carlson https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/07/politics/kfile-kevin-mccarthy-january-6-comments-contradict-carlson-footage/index.html 96 comments politics
- Trump tiptoes away from Kevin McCarthy amid House speaker flop: ‘We’ll see what happens’ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-b2255535.html 37 comments politics
- Marjorie Taylor Greene lashes out at ‘destructionists’ blocking Kevin McCarthy’s House speaker bid https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/greene-mccarthy-house-republicans-speaker-b2255324.html 39 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy wants to be speaker. There’s just one problem https://www.vox.com/2018/5/4/17306586/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-california-republican-trump 6 comments politics
- Paul Ryan endorses Kevin McCarthy to succeed him as speaker https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/paul-ryan-endorses-kevin-mccarthy-speaker/index.html 60 comments politics
- Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn his candidacy for House Speaker http://news.yahoo.com/house-gop-vote-speaker-wont-last-word-080343898--politics.html 10 comments politics
- Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Announces Bid For House Speaker http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kevin-mccarthy-speaker_5609964de4b0768126fe9a1b?utm_hp_ref=politics 6 comments politics
- ‘Beyond parody’: Outrage after Marjorie Taylor Greene briefly handed Speaker’s gavel by Kevin McCarthy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-speaker-gavel-b2296837.html 240 comments politics
- Statement from Congressman Dan Goldman After Speaker Kevin McCarthy Admits Prior Knowledge of George Santos’s Effort to Defraud the Electorate https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/statement-congressman-dan-goldman-after-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-admits-prior 237 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy Withdraws From Race To Be Speaker, Leaving Republicans In Total Disarray http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/08/3710590/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-withdraws/ 36 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy’s Benghazi clustermuck gets worse: The likely next speaker is a man out of his depth http://www.salon.com/2015/10/02/kevin_mccarthys_benghazi_clustermuck_gets_worse_the_likely_next_speaker_is_a_man_out_of_his_depth/ 19 comments politics
- Jim Jordan’s Big Day Ends in Chaos and Failure: The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor Kevin McCarthy did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel. https://newrepublic.com/article/176305/jim-jordan-mccarthy-republican-speaker 359 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy reportedly joked about hitting Nancy Pelosi with a speaker's gavel during a GOP fundraising dinner https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy-joked-hitting-nancy-pelosi-gavel-reports-2021-8 326 comments politics
- Paul Ryan endorses Kevin McCarthy to replace him as Speaker - Axios https://www.axios.com/paul-ryan-endorses-kevin-mccarthy-to-replace-him-house-speaker-a3e8f75f-af79-441b-9c15-1ee632267b4a.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100 4 comments politics
- California Rep. Kevin McCarthy poised to become next Speaker of the House http://wqad.com/2015/09/28/california-rep-kevin-mccarthy-poised-to-become-next-speaker-of-the-house/ 4 comments politics
- Liz Cheney calls Kevin McCarthy's January 6 rhetoric 'disgraceful' and says his lack of 'commitment to the Constitution' should disqualify him from being House speaker if GOP wins in 2022 https://www.businessinsider.com/liz-cheney-mccarthy-should-not-become-house-speaker-2022-2021-7 370 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy’s Snub of Pelosi Says It All: The would-be House Speaker is already demonstrating that he lacks the class of any of his predecessors. https://newrepublic.com/article/168999/kevin-mccarthy-snub-pelosi-speaker 352 comments politics
- US House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy [Republican who is likely to be Speaker if Republicans win control] weighs whether to keep Select Committee on the Climate Crisis https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/18/kevin-mccarthy-weighs-future-special-committee-climate-change/ 4 comments climate
- How red and pink Starburst might make Kevin McCarthy the next House speaker https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/12/politics/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-steve-scalise/index.html 18 comments politics
- “You Got No Guts”: Kevin McCarthy Reportedly Shoves GOP Lawmaker | The former House speaker got into a physical altercation with another member of his own party. https://newrepublic.com/post/176920/kevin-mccarthy-reportedly-shoves-tim-burchett 25 comments politics
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene 'reminds me of my friends from high school' https://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-mccarthy-marjorie-taylor-greene-reminds-me-friends-high-school-2023-1 360 comments politics
- Mike Johnson Has Already Run Out of Ideas—The new speaker's doomed, ridiculous plan to trade funding for Israel for IRS cuts suggests he is even more powerless than Kevin McCarthy. https://newrepublic.com/article/176571/mike-johnson-irs-israel-house 1009 comments politics
- Gavin Newsom Tweets 1 Scathing Word About Kevin McCarthy's Mass Shooting Silence. A video of the Republican House speaker drew a blistering response from California's Democratic governor. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gavin-newsom-kevin-mccarthy-guns_n_642404dfe4b0a10577babdbc 28 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy Dismisses Potential Trump Indictment As “Political” Witch Hunt": The House speaker’s claim comes right after he begged Trump supporters to please not protest if in an indictment really happens. https://newrepublic.com/post/171289/kevin-mccarthy-dismisses-potential-trump-indictment-political-witch-hunt 36 comments politics
- Will They Finally Haul the Slaver Statues Out of the Capitol? | An astonishing one-third of Capitol artworks depict slaveholders. Will they remain? It’s largely up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. https://newrepublic.com/article/170443/confederate-slaveholder-statues-capitol-kevin-mccarthy 41 comments politics
- Congressional leadership elections: House Republicans elect Kevin McCarthy as next leader; Pelosi seeks to shore up votes for speaker https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/congressional-leadership-elections-pelosi-seeks-to-shore-up-votes-for-speaker/2018/11/14/e9443c14-e813-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html 23 comments politics
- GOP negotiators hit ‘pause’ on debt talks | The negative turn in the tone came from Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.)— a top emissary for Speaker Kevin McCarthy. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/gop-negotiators-hit-pause-on-debt-talks-00097884 48 comments politics
- The Powerful Lobbyist Behind Kevin McCarthy: Jeff Miller is the new House speaker’s top fund-raiser and closest confidant. He is also one of Washington’s most prominent corporate lobbyists, an arrangement that is drawing scrutiny. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/us/politics/jeff-miller-lobbyist-kevin-mccarthy.html?smid=%F0%9F%A6%A3&unlocked_article_code=flJt7bF4FPISdSX2VsI1HkpDceuIiflTdYYa_P2MLKyKbQCTXq_GKqZ402-DHgVNvH4n2SqAi4VQQ6eTjPyssQQJ3c4sHJBVCaUEaDa3gnMWi3uORMaiksEuGLNxwbo4RzDEsOL0r6ofn-8Rql0mazmrAOqIi_xlyRzlLaCsWYd8CHwupPCTGVo6fPBzdajgvWDhEsydB4R7WnzQ59ZYybwSuMCOXNltecNu0VGbp1aLICZXFgFBhC7Bol3vBukHAlok35OT4vU0SASk6g5596YGYU_Lvxf3D3wVfmavC2grOPxP_8N0FJ4rBd26eYjuTToq2eOxDL21DcK1EFyp6xKpft5izW0NW5hGs6bodSqW 13 comments politics
- Kevin McCarthy says he was forced out of House speakership over ethics inquiry - Former speaker says Matt Gaetz led charge to remove him to quash charges that Florida representative ‘slept with a 17-year-old’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/10/matt-gaetz-removed-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-ethics 510 comments politics
- History exposes another motive for kicking key Democrats off committees — By removing Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would remove obstacles to his agenda https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/24/omar-mccarthy-schiff-committees/ 15 comments politics
- Conservative group pushes to topple GOP leaders in Congress – ads will target House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, as well as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Whip John Cornyn http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/04/first-on-cnn-conservative-group-pushes-to-topple-gop-leaders-in-congress/?iref=obnetwork 154 comments politics
- Boehner Throws Leadership Races a Curveball - "...Speaker John A. Boehner announced Monday that potential majority leader and majority whip contests would only take place if Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is confirmed as speaker on the floor at the end of October." http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/boehner-throws-leadership-races-curveball/ 24 comments politics
- House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) are discussing "voting on their bill and, if it passes, leaving town — a bid to try to force the Senate’s hand." http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-house-gop-considers-passing-bill-then-leaving-town 266 comments politics