With pressure mounting, the Speaker's chair of the U.S. House of Representatives sat empty for a third day on Thursday, as Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed in yet another excruciating ballot to win enough votes from his party to seize the chamber's gavel.
The Associated PressRepublican Leader Kevin McCarthy stands inside the House Chamber during the eighth round of voting for a new Speaker on the third day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Thursday.
With McCarthy's supporters and foes locked in stalemate, the House could not formally open for the new session of Congress. And feelings of boredom, desperation and annoyance seemed increasingly evident.One McCarthy critic, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, even cast his votes in two rounds for Donald Trump, a symbolic but pointed sign of the broader divisions over the Republican Party's future.
McCarthy's leadership team had presented a core group of the Republican holdouts with a deal on paper in exchange for their support, said one of the opponents, conservative Republican Ralph Norman of South Carolina, as he exited a late-day meeting. Incoming Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries was nominated by his party for a third straight day. Jeffries has won the plurality of votes on every ballot.
The incoming Republican chair of the House's foreign affairs, armed services and intelligence committees all said national security was at risk.
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