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Chip Roy and other Texas holdouts flip votes and now support Kevin McCarthy, who remains short in speaker bid
By Matthew Choi
Live updates: McCarthy's bid for House speaker continues
By Farnoush Amiri & Lisa Mascaro
This was supposed to be McCarthy's moment. What happened?
By Domenico Montanaro
McCarthy floats path to Speakership with lower vote threshold
By Emily Brooks
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First on CNN: McCarthy proposes key concessions after House adjourns for second day without electing a speaker
By Lauren Fox, Clare Foran & Manu Raju
House GOP back in familiar pattern — fury at the Freedom Caucus
By Olivia Beavers, Jordain Carney & Sarah Ferris
House adjourns without resolving speaker election after McCarthy loses on 6th ballot
By Kathryn Watson & Melissa Quinn
McCarthy Flounders as G.O.P. Rebellion Paralyzes the House for a Second Day (Published 2023)
By Catie Edmondson
Behind the Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
By John Cassidy
Post Politics Now: House adjourns without electing a speaker after negotiations among GOP
By Aaron Blake, Dylan Wells & John Wagner
Kevin McCarthy's Embrace of Trump Backfired
By David A. Graham
Why Big-Money Donors Can't Reel In GOP Rebels
By Julie Bykowicz
Congress 2023: What to Know as House and Senate Reconvene
By Mini Racker & Jasmine Aguilera
House members blocking McCarthy speaker bid meet at offices of ex-Trump chief Mark Meadows
By Jon Ward
U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy pledges to tackle immigration, 'woke' education policies and IRS funding
By Ashley Capoot
McCarthy Agrees To These Concessions In His Quest To Become Speaker—But They May Not Be Enough
By Sara Dorn
In 1923, the Speaker of the House election took 9 rounds and in 1856, Congress was shut for 2 months
By Terry Moseley
Kevin McCarthy wins House speakership on 15th vote
By Nolan D. McCaskill
What The 20 Republicans Who Voted Against Kevin McCarthy Have In Common
By Nathaniel Rakich
Freedom Caucus earns major concessions from Kevin McCarthy after speaker vote
By Jon Levine & Mary Kay Linge
The Kevin McCarthy Mess Is Peak Trumpism
By Molly Jong-Fast
McCarthy compromises with Republican rebellion to take speaker's gavel
By Phillip M. Bailey
Kevin McCarthy delivers first remarks after winning House Speaker: 'Our nation is worth fighting for'
By Lawrence Richard & Chad Pergram
What has Kevin McCarthy given up, and at what price?
By Anthony Zurcher
House speaker election: fight over Kevin McCarthy's leadership has exposed limits of Trump's power
By Thomas Gift
US House has no members, no rules as speaker race drags on
By Mary Clare Jalonick
'A disaster': Speaker fight exposes GOP leadership vacuum
By Steve Peoples & Jill Colvin
McCarthy elected House speaker in rowdy post-midnight vote
By Farnoush Amiri & Lisa Mascaro
McCarthy may have only himself to blame
By Stephen Collinson
Here are the 20 House Republicans who voted against McCarthy for speaker on the third ballot
By Sonnet Swire, Annie Grayer & Clare Foran
Jim Jordan nominated for speaker by conservative hardliners amid GOP infighting for House leadership
By Sonnet Swire
The lawmaker trying to unite Republicans around McCarthy’s speakership bid
By Chandelis R. Duster
The House has a speaker. Here’s what comes next
By Sonnet Swire, Clare Foran & Melanie Zanona
Kevin McCarthy, the view from home
By Kyung Lah