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(WASHINGTON) -- The House Republican leadership standoff will stretch into a fourth day on Friday after 11 failed votes so far to decide on a speaker over Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is being stymied by a small group of hardliners. They are demanding concessions, to reshape how the House is run

(WASHINGTON) -- The House Republican leadership standoff is stretching into a fourth day Friday after 11 failed votes so far to decide on a speaker over Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is being stymied by a small group of hardliners. They are demanding concessions, to reshape how the House is run and

(WASHINGTON) -- The House Republican leadership standoff is in a second day Wednesday after three failed votes to decide on a speaker Tuesday. Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is so far being stymied by a small group of hardliners demanding concessions or alternative candidates. The House can conduct no other business -- and members can't be

Mint Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The vote to elect a House speaker in the new Congress is in its second day -- the first time that has happened in a century -- as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struggles to get a majority of votes to wield the gavel. The House can conduct no other business until a speaker is chosen. But the current limbo is nowhere near the longest-ever speaker vote, which occurred in 1855 and 1856. The record for most rounds of votes, according to the Office of the Historian of the House, is the 34th Congress, when Rep. Nathaniel Prentice Banks of Massachusetts was o...

(WASHINGTON) -- The vote to elect a House speaker in the new Congress is in its second day -- the first time that has happened in a century -- as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy struggles to get a majority of votes to wield the gavel. The House can conduct no other business until a speaker