The Freedom Caucus negotiated major concessions.In the final analysis, the twenty members of the House Freedom Caucus (great American heroes) cand and will bring everything to a dead stop if Keven McCarthy violates the deal.
No speaker race had lasted 15 rounds or more in 163 years, according to House records. The last race to take more than one ballot occurred in 1923, when reelecting then-Speaker Frederick Gillett took nine ballots.
Here’s how badly McCarthy got beat
House Freedom Caucus has ~45 members (20%) but got 3 out of 9 GOP seats on all-powerful Rules Cmte (33%)
KM only wanted to give 2
3 is *HUGE* b/c it’s Veto power on *every* bill
Freedom Caucus will now control every single bill in House
We are negotiating a historic conservative victory to finally stop reckless SPENDING and DEBT from crushing our children & grandchildren. We will ensure a Republican House cannot do what Senate Rs did when they passed the disastrous $1.7 TRILLION omnibus! We must STOP BIDEN! pic.twitter.com/7MI8X1qgry
Kevin McCarthy elected House speaker on the 15th vote, most since before the Civil War
By Victor Nava, The NY Post, January 7, 2023:
At long last, a battle for House speaker not seen since the mid-19th century ended early Saturday morning when Rep. Kevin McCarthy peeled off enough Republican holdouts on the 15th ballot to end the four-day marathon contest.
McCarthy, a California Republican, took hold of the gavel after appeasing members of the House Freedom Caucus with promises to cap spending at 2022 levels, allow any one member to call for a vote to oust him, and expand the House Rules Committee to include more members of the Freedom Caucus, among other concessions.
“That was easy, huh?” McCarthy joked to House members in his first speech as speaker. “I never thought we’d get up here.”
Friday’s late night voting began after the House reconvened at 10 p.m. Hours earlier, McCarthy failed the first two speakership votes of the day – the 12th and 13th ballots of the week.
He was also dealt a stunning defeat, by one vote, on the 14th ballot in a roll call filled with high drama. It was his best performance since voting began on Tuesday.
McCarthy finally won the 15th ballot with 216 votes. Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries placed second with 212 votes from the entire Democratic caucus, which was unified on all ballots cast this week.
CNN reported on Friday that McCarthy and his allies had been working during the break between sessions to convince holdouts to vote “present” instead of for another candidate, in order for the threshold of votes needed for McCarthy to become speaker to drop.
McCarthy flipped 15 previous GOP holdout votes following the 13th ballot, leaving Andy Biggs of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Eli Crane of Arizona, Bob Good of Virginia, and Matt Rosendale of Montana as the remaining GOP opposition to his speakership.
On the 15th ballot Friday night, Boebert, Gaetz, Biggs, Good, Rosendale, and Crane stopped voting for opposition candidates and helped hand McCarthy the speaker’s gavel.
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Don Davenport
1 year ago
He’ll make a great speaker. McCarthy is tall, thin, has a full head of hair and strong defined jaw line. I can just see him now on TV, dressed in his sharp business suit, looking so suave and debonair, standing to applaud the Delaware Dim Bulb during the state of the union address or strikingly pounding the gavel while yelling there will be no investigation into Hunter. The guy is a natural. Maybe even GQ will run a cover spread.
Certainly seems the Speaker of The House’s wisdom has been revealed. _ His Election after giving ‘all I repeat all’ input from the Elected Representatives and Oath Makers, has put the Republican Oath holders, as supporters of the investigation(s) into many of the perceived and in some situations -proven- efforts to the “slide-by Coup de tat”._ Starting in the middle 1970s – through infiltration; bribery; domination of the two countries of North America, which remain north of Mexico._MikeSr
Why do some people not wait for the dust-to-settle in a standard “dust-up in the Political Arena? _ Especially when there is such a plethora of “Paid” democrat dirty trick(s) daily memos sent out to the [Bought?] smearedia and the quick to comment “wanna-be paid”willing to become Demon minions? _ MikeSr.
Chris Wolf
1 year ago
Let’s see this as the first step on a journey of a thousand miles.
McCarthy was a small business owner, and the globalist-demonrat-crony-Satanist-obama junta is murdering our freedom first and foremost by killing small business — that’s where freedom lives!
The they should oust him on the first day. He is no good for the country and never has been. He is a Deep state establishment NWO RINO.
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R.G.
1 year ago
Smoke and mirrors. All the vote drama for speaker position for what? These meager concessions, if any of them were actually agreed to, won’t amount to anything. And all the promises supposedly made can just be broken, anyway. This is mostly the same cast of characters from 2016 to present that did everything they could to make sure the deep state thrived and undermined President Trump at every turn.
Michael McCallion Sr
1 year ago
Certainly seems the Speaker of The House’s wisdom has been revealed. _ His Election after giving ‘all I repeat all’ input from the Elected Representatives and Oath Makers, has put the Republican Oath holders, as supporters of the investigation(s) into many of the perceived and in some situations -proven- efforts to the “slide-by Coup de tat”._ Starting in the middle 1970s – through infiltration; bribery; domination of the two countries of North America, which remain north of Mexico._MikeSr
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