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Washington (AFP) - Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted as the Republican speaker of the US House of Representatives in October, announced Wednesday that he will resign from Congress at the end of the year. The departure of the 58-year-old congressman from California will leave Republicans with a slim 220-213 majority in the chamber. McCarthy's announcement comes days after George Santos, a scandal-plagued Republican representative from New York, was expelled from the House, just the sixth member to be thrown out since Congress began deliberating in 1789. Two months ago, McCarthy become the first sp...
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Washington (AFP) - Republican Kevin McCarthy rode the tiger of far-right US politics led by Donald Trump to achieve his dream of becoming House speaker early this year. Then on Tuesday, the tiger turned and ate him. The 55th speaker of the House of Representatives was booted out in a shock vote brought by rebels in his own party who have seethed in the nine months since McCarthy narrowly quelled their attempts to block him and managed to claim the most powerful job in Congress. No other speaker -- a position second in line from the presidency in the federal hierarchy -- has been ousted in US h...
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Washington (AFP) - Like bomb squad technicians who just snipped the last wire on a ticking device, Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy are breathing a sigh of relief after reaching a deal on the US debt ceiling. The fact they are on opposing sides in the political war gripping Washington makes their exploit all the more remarkable. Biden is a Democratic president running for re-election next year who initially refused even to negotiate over raising the debt ceiling, insisting that Republicans controling the House of Representatives had a constitutional duty to protect the country from ...
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Washington (AFP) - House Republicans will launch sweeping investigations of Democratic President Joe Biden's administration if they recapture the chamber as expected in Tuesday's midterm election, Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said. McCarthy, in an interview with CNN, said potential probes included the US pullout from Afghanistan and the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. He also left the door open to an eventual impeachment effort, a move which has been advocated by some of the more extreme right-wing members of the party. "We will never use impeachment for political purposes," McC...
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