{"id":948178,"date":"2023-01-07T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T05:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/mccarthy-elected-house-speaker"},"modified":"2023-01-07T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T05:33:31","slug":"after-15-ballots-mccarthy-finally-elected-speaker-of-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/07\/after-15-ballots-mccarthy-finally-elected-speaker-of-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"After 15 Ballots, McCarthy Finally Elected Speaker of the House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/media-library\/us-representative-kevin-mccarthy-r-ca-speaks-to-us-representative-matt-gaetz-r-fl.jpg?id=32642296&width=1200&height=600&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C165\"\/><br\/><br\/><p>After nearly a week of chaotic voting on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy of California was elected Speaker of the House of the 118th Congress just after midnight early Saturday morning after finally securing enough votes in the 15th ballot.<\/p><p>The final tally was 216 votes for McCarthy and 212 votes for Democrat Hakeem Jeffries of New York, after 6 far-right holdouts, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), lowered the threshold to secure the speakership by voting \"present\" instead of registering a vote for another GOP member.<\/p><p>The 15th ballot followed a dramatic 14th ballot vote in which tensions soared on the floor of the House chamber.<br\/><\/p><p>The five-day battle for the speakership is over.<br\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/mccarthy-elected-house-speaker\">Common Dreams<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly a week of chaotic voting on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy of California was elected Speaker of the House of the 118th Congress just after midnight early Saturday morning after finally securing e&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55856,6177,3371,55544],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948178"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948798,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948178\/revisions\/948798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}