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2023 House Speaker Election refers to the contentious election of a new Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress in January of 2023. A Speaker of the House must be elected with a majority of votes from congresspeople, and in 2023, the number of votes needed is 218. Republicans have 222 seats in the House of Representatives, and the vast majority want Representative Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House. However, a caucus of hard-right conservative congresspeople refused to vote for McCarthy, causing the election to repeat multiple times for the first time in ov...

A Bitcoin miners’ industry association has taken lawmakers to task for their inaccuracies in a letter addressed to EPA Administrator Michael Regan.

SAMANTHA HAWKINS More than 70 million people are affected by a historic drought in the West. Lawmakers and administration officials are scrambling to find a fix.  Folsom Lake beachgoers traverse desert landscapes to find water. Designed to protect the Sacramento Valley from flooding when the Sierra sheds its coat of winter snow, Folsom Lake is now a visual reminder of the drought plaguing California given the lack of rain and snow two years running. (Courthouse News photo/Nick Cahill) WASHINGTON (CN) — A crippling drought — largely connected to climate change — is gripping the Weste...