LLiberal News Dems bask in the speaker schadenfreudeJanuary 7, 2023 It’s the third day of a leaderless House, and Democrats are in no mood to bail Republicans out.…
LLiberal News McCarthy fails on 11th ballot amid hopes for tentative deal with conservativesJanuary 7, 2023 Kevin McCarthy and his conservative opponents have reached a tentative breakthrough after a days-long standoff, giving the California…
LLiberal News McCarthy fails on 11th ballot amid hopes for tentative deal with conservativesJanuary 7, 2023 Kevin McCarthy and his conservative opponents have reached a tentative breakthrough after a days-long standoff, giving the California…
LLiberal News GOP debates: Who could take McCarthy’s place?January 7, 2023 If not Kevin McCarthy, then who? It’s the all-consuming question that has started openly percolating among the House…
LLiberal News Increasingly desperate GOP calls it a night without picking a speakerJanuary 7, 2023 Kevin McCarthy is kicking his bid for the speaker’s gavel into a historic third day after Republicans adjourned…
LLiberal News Your burning speakership questions answered: A viewer’s guide to the House chaosJanuary 7, 2023 As Kevin McCarthy muddles through the fourth day of his anarchic battle for the House speakership, it remains…
LLiberal News Increasingly desperate GOP calls it a night without picking a speakerJanuary 7, 2023 Kevin McCarthy is kicking his bid for the speaker’s gavel into a historic third day after Republicans adjourned…
LLiberal News House GOP back in familiar pattern — fury at the Freedom CaucusJanuary 7, 2023 Former Speaker John Boehner once dubbed certain members of the House Freedom Caucus “legislative terrorists.” After Tuesday’s spectacle…
LLiberal News 3 strikes for McCarthy — but he’s not out yetJanuary 7, 2023 The House adjourned without a speaker on Tuesday for the first time in a century after Kevin McCarthy…
LLiberal News Zinke: Trump’s influence ‘absolutely’ waning amid speaker impasseJanuary 6, 2023 “He’s behind McCarthy and they ignored him,” the former Interior secretary said.
LLiberal News Congress honors Jan. 6 officers who kept ‘democracy intact’January 6, 2023 They held a 140-second moment of silence in an “acknowledgement of the 140 officers who were seriously injured…
LLiberal News ‘Kevin Who?’ How the McCarthy Drama Is Playing in His HometownJanuary 6, 2023 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Earlier this week, Cathy Abernathy, a Republican strategist here, was asked by a local reporter…