House speaker vote stretches past 11th ballot, most since before the Civil War
WASHINGTON –The House of Representatives made history Thursday, moving to, and then surpassing, an 11th ballot after more stalemated efforts to elect a speaker of the House – the most ballots in this normally pro forma election since before the Civil War.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has now failed in 11 ballots since Tuesday, as a solid core of some 20 Republicans say they will continue to oppose him because he is too much a part of the establishment.
In the meantime, the House remains without a speaker.
GOP opponents have sunk his attempts to get enough votes to win the job. The efforts to forge a compromise could weaken the job — if he gets it — and show that governing the Republican-led House is going to be challenging this year, with infighting consuming what's been a simple one-ballot vote for the past hundred years.
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