Author: Juliegrace Brufke, Washington Examiner

Jodey Arrington of Texas won the gavel for the House Budget Committee on Monday, edging out two other GOP lawmakers to head the panel. Arrington is set to replace House Ways and Means Chairman-elect Jason Smith (R-MO), who won a heated battle to lead the powerful tax-writing panel. As chairman, Arrington will be tasked with…

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) won enough votes to become the next speaker of the House on Friday night after a heated, dayslong stalemate that broke when the GOP leader finally agreed to a series of concessions to his Republican opponents. All of the remaining GOP holdouts voted “present” on the 15th ballot, lowering the threshold…

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) insisted that House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will not get the votes to become speaker and said Republicans need to rally around someone who will unify the conference while nominating Republican Study Committee Chairman Kevin Hern (R-OK) for the position on the floor. In a fiery speech, the Colorado Republican…

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is poised to fall short of the support needed to become speaker on the eighth ballot, with a group of 20 conservatives continuing to push back on the California Republican on the third day of votes on the floor. His detractors have said they will continue to vote against…

The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Kevin McCarthy-aligned leadership PAC, has struck a deal with the influential conservative group Club for Growth to refrain from spending in contested GOP primary races amid the California Republican’s struggle to win the speaker’s gavel. The move is a sizable concession for McCarthy, with the demand for leadership not to…

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) decided against a push to adjourn the House as he struggles to lock down the votes to become speaker. McCarthy weighed pushing for an adjournment to provide more time to strategize, but conservatives balked at voting in favor of the motion. “We need to sit in a room, negotiate…

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is angling for the House to adjourn on Day Two as he struggles to get the votes needed to lock down the speaker’s gavel after coming up short on three ballots Tuesday, two senior GOP sources said. The House passed by voice vote a motion for the House to…

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy‘s (R-CA) most vocal critics, sent a letter to the architect of the Capitol questioning why the California Republican is occupying the speaker’s office after falling short on votes Tuesday. McCarthy moved into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-CA) office shortly after Christmas, with leadership…

The House agreed to adjourn after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to secure the speakership in three ballots cast Tuesday, with competing factions slated to huddle on next steps after Republicans found themselves at an impasse over who should lead the lower chamber. Lawmakers adjourned by voice vote until noon Wednesday after 20 Republicans opposed…

On the third ballot for speaker, the number of conservatives voting against House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) grew as he continues to struggle to get the 218 votes needed to secure the gavel. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined the 19 GOP lawmakers who voted against McCarthy on the first two ballots, joining conservatives in…