Usa news: The House speaker’s gavel is now held by a Republican, and with that change will come new priorities, a series of investigations and partisan gridlock that could bring President Joe Biden’s agenda to a crawl, if not a full stop. <\/p>\n
Kevin McCarthy, who triumphed in a contentious, historic floor nomination battle to become the next House speaker, has made clear in the weeks since the Nov. 8 election that Democrats would no longer have one-party rule of Washington.<\/p>\n
But McCarthy’s effort to gain control of the gavel was hard-fought. A group of conservative hard-liners seeking greater influence in the House stymied the California lawmaker’s ascension by voting against him on 14 ballots. It was the first time the process of electing a speaker took more than one ballot in more than 100 years.<\/p>\n
To win the speaker role, McCarthy made concessions over rules and committee assignments, giving more power to those who opposed him. <\/p>\n
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