{"id":30135,"date":"2023-01-06T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2023-01-06T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T18:47:19","slug":"house-reconvenes-in-last-ditch-effort-to-select-speaker-before-week-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2023\/01\/06\/house-reconvenes-in-last-ditch-effort-to-select-speaker-before-week-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"House reconvenes in last-ditch effort to select speaker before week ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: Two years after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a violent mob of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters, the House GOP is in turmoil as Republicans struggle to elect a House speaker. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the legacy of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, will be marked Friday in remembrances by President Joe Biden and others.<br \/>\nHouse speaker election drags on: A group of Republican defectors led by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus have stymied the election of a House speaker by refusing to vote for the party&#8217;s House leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy. He lost an 11th vote for the speaker role Thursday night.<br \/>\nHouse GOP agenda on hold until speaker chosen: After two years of Democratic control in both chambers, allowing for an 18-month congressional investigation into the Capitol attack, the GOP has vowed to fight back on narratives around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, COVID-19 and Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden. But without a speaker of the House, the party remains in political purgatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usa news: Two years after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by a violent mob of former President Donald Trump&rsquo;s supporters, the House GOP is in turmoil as Republicans struggle to elect a House speaker. Meanwhile, the legacy of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, will be marked Friday in remembrances by President Joe Biden and others. House speaker election drags on: A group of Republican defectors led by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus have stymied the election of a House speaker by refusing to vote for the party&rsquo;s House leader, Rep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30137,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30135\/revisions\/30137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}