Over and over and over again. it was a historic deadlock that also exposed rifts within the republican party, as the far right factions jockey for power in the new congress, forcing kevin mccarthy to make concessions in exchange for their votes to make him speaker. mccarthy eventually pulled through, and won the race, but there's been a question ever since about exactly what kind of deals he made in order to secure those votes. it's believed that among the list of concessions he made, promises about committee assignments. you often hear about the shuffling of committee assignments every now an...