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‘The Most Extreme Elements of Both Sides Can’t Be in Control’
While 20 hard-right members of the U.S. House of Representatives held the national Republican leadership hostage in Washington last week…
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The Chaos Caucus Is Now in Charge
Things are looking up for Kevin McCarthy! Last week it took 15 agonizing roll call votes spread over five days…
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World
House Republicans Vote to Rescind I.R.S. Funding
The measure, one of the new majority’s first legislative moves, would cut billions in funding that Democrats passed to help…
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World
Republicans Prepare New Rules, but Fixing Congress Isn’t So Easy
History suggests that the procedural plans of the new House Republican majority are likely to lead to more gridlock and…
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World
From Gingrich to McCarthy, the Roots of Governance by Chaos
Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the brand of the Tea Party and Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans and…
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Far-Right Critics Vex McCarthy in His Bakersfield District, Too
The Republican divisions posing problems for Representative Kevin McCarthy have been playing out not only on the House floor but…
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Finance
C-SPAN and cable news get a boost from the House speaker spectacle.
The drama of this week’s House speaker vote resembles something out of “Waiting For Godot.” Turns out Americans are tuning…
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World
Speaker Quest Reveals McCarthy’s Tenuous Grip on an Unruly Majority
WASHINGTON — As dawn broke after yet another day of Representative Kevin McCarthy of California trying and failing to become…
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Finance
Chaos in House Rolls On: ‘I’m Never Getting Sworn In, Am I?’
WASHINGTON — What passed for business as usual in Congress, at least if you go back 164 years, crawled along…
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Surprise in Pennsylvania: Republicans Back a (Former?) Democrat for Speaker
Representative Mark Rozzi, long a moderate Democrat, pledged not to caucus with either party as speaker of the closely divided…