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‘The Most Extreme Elements of Both Sides Can’t Be in Control’
While 20 hard-right members of the U.S. House of Representatives held the national Republican leadership hostage in Washington last week…
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The Chaos Caucus Is Now in Charge
Things are looking up for Kevin McCarthy! Last week it took 15 agonizing roll call votes spread over five days…
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House Republicans Vote to Rescind I.R.S. Funding
The measure, one of the new majority’s first legislative moves, would cut billions in funding that Democrats passed to help…
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Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy
History suggests that the procedural plans of the new House Republican majority are likely to lead to more gridlock and…
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From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos
Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the brand of the Tea Party and Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans and…
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Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too
The Republican divisions posing problems for Representative Kevin McCarthy have been playing out not only on the House floor but…
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C-SPAN and cable news get a boost from the House speaker spectacle.
The drama of this week’s House speaker vote resembles something out of “Waiting For Godot.” Turns out Americans are tuning…
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Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
WASHINGTON — As dawn broke after yet another day of Representative Kevin McCarthy of California trying and failing to become…
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Chaos in House Rolls On: ‘I’m Never Getting Sworn In, Am I?’
WASHINGTON — What passed for business as usual in Congress, at least if you go back 164 years, crawled along…
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Surprise in Pennsylvania: Republicans Back a (Former?) Democrat for Speaker
Representative Mark Rozzi, long a moderate Democrat, pledged not to caucus with either party as speaker of the closely divided…