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The GOP has stumbled at the starting line of the new Congress, squandering a moment of rare opportunity. Having won a House majority, albeit a slim one, most Republican members were eager to turn up the heat on President Biden and advance the agenda on which voters elected them. Instead, they have spent almost a week embroiled in a debacle, only finally electing Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as Speaker in the 15th round of voting soon after midnight Saturday. |
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Here are five takeaways on the craziest Speaker's election anyone alive has ever seen. |
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The battle for Speaker, particularly its culmination on Friday night and Saturday morning, produced a number of memorable moments. Here are five of the most dramatic and colorful. |
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Saturday morning's breakthrough vote that secured Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (R-Calif.) election as Speaker, as well House Republicans' drawn-out struggle to get to that point, will likely dominate the Sunday talk show circuit this weekend. |
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Republicans gave President Biden a late Christmas gift with their messy, drawn-out struggle to elect a House Speaker. |
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President Biden on Sunday will make his first trip to the southern border since taking office, confronting the issue of immigration head on as it threatens to become a growing problem for him and his administration. |
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BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND REBECCA BEITSCH |
The Biden administration's plan to crack down at the border in exchange for some expanded legal pathways of entry for migrants received a generally tepid response from Hispanic Democrats, though some in the group were incensed that they were sidelined in favor of developing a policy many worry treads too closely to Trump-era immigration efforts. |
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Who is Biden leaning on as he revs up for another run? |
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The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant is raising concerns of a potential surge in COVID-19 cases as it sweeps across the Northeast. |
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OPINION | Moreover, many in the media were honest about what they consider his greatest shortcoming: "Kevin McCarthy is no Nancy Pelosi." Some of us sincerely hope so. |
OPINION | Fast economic growth solves problems. Slow growth causes them. China is trying to speed up growth again after Xi's disastrous COVID-related mistakes while the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and slamming on the brakes to fight inflation. China's commitment to growth while the Fed goes in the opposite direction should worry Americans profoundly. | |
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Republican Kevin McCarthy is the new House speaker, but as bruising as it was for him to seize the gavel in a history-making election, it may be even more difficult for the embattled leader to do much with the powerful position — or to even keep it. |
Speaker Kevin McCarthy's slog to his post ended with a remarkably public show of intraparty strife that played out in a history-making overnight session. |
The stakes for the economy could be great as Republicans eye the debt limit and a deadline to fund the government as leverage in talks with the Biden administration. |
BY DANA MATTIOLI AND MILES KRUPPA |
Companies that grew rapidly during pandemic are now reducing spending and staffing, sometimes repeatedly. |
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