2023 House Speaker Election | Know Your Meme
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...
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