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Historic deadlock continues: McCarthy falls short on eighth speaker ballot

Por: Los Angeles Times Politics January 05, 2023

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House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield on Thursday failed in his seventh and eighth attempts to be elected speaker, extending the saga over which Republican will succeed Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco). The historic failure puts the 118th Congress on track to tie or pass the 68th Congress for the number of ballots required to elect a speaker, which required nine ballots in 1923. The all-time record is 133 ballots, set in 1855-56. A... + full article



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