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US Speaker: Stalemate Persists after 3 Days, 11 Votes

Web News 6 January 2023 454 0

The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, has failed in his latest bid to get elected Speaker in a paralysis of US government not seen since the pre-Civil War era. A cohort of right-wingers in his party derailed an 11th attempt to elect him on the third day of Continue Reading

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America Mid-term Election: Democrats, Republican Battle for Congress

Web News 8 November 2022 449 0

Millions of Americans will vote in the midterm elections on Tuesday, with the balance of power in Congress at stake. The entire US House of Representatives, about a third of the Senate and key state governorships are up for grabs. Democrats currently control the White House and – by razor-thin margins – both chambers of […]Continue Reading

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: US House Votes to Strip Republican of Key Posts

Web News 5 February 2021 462 0

The US House of Representatives has voted to expel a Republican congresswoman from two committees over incendiary remarks she made before being elected last November. Marjorie Taylor Greene had promoted baseless QAnon conspiracy theories and endorsed violence against Democrats. Before the vote, she said she regretted her views, which included claims that school shootings Continue Reading