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speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, you write? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office says the speakers were in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too ....
in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, huh? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office, the speakers swore in in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short of a majority of the house with six members voting present. it was of ....
Money for the arts, community-driven safety initiatives, cost-of-living increases for Metro employees and walkable infrastructure topped priorities. ....
Will be in this odd scenario where he use the rules package to get the votes for speaker, but he can t implement what he promised. so that will be a stress test into next week. but they will survive it. the real test will be around keeping the government open through the annual budget process will be at the end of this year. and then accommodating the debt ceiling. which will absolutely require working with democrats. eric kanter tried to work with obama as the ambassador of the republican house at the time. in these issues. realize how quickly his stop was going to fall. and retreat. it left the white house. and went back to the house. and never move to the white house again. they want to go with obama because it was too dangerous. and that s when i think, how does mccarthy push through that type of trouble? is to actually double down on the hard impeachments, the investigations, and perhaps going after joe biden himself. it was really his only pathway to keep proving himself to the p ....