Now the drop height increases. The politicians in the House of Representatives last night postponed the election until Wednesday evening Norwegian time. None of the three votes held on Tuesday gave McCarthy the majority he needs to become the leader of the House of Representatives. Will not retire After the third defeat, McCarthy tells CNN that he has no intention of retiring. After the by-elections this autumn, the Republicans have gained 222 seats in the House of Representatives. To be elected as “speaker”, as it is called in the USA, a candidate needs the support of more than half of the 435 representatives. This means that a new leader must have the support of at least 218 representatives, if all politicians vote in the leadership election. In other words: McCarthy does not get a majority if more than four Republicans vote for another candidate. Must “flip” 15 party colleagues Republican Jim Jordan was nominated by a group of conservative Republicans who oppose McCarthy. In the third ballot, Kevin McCarthy received 202 votes, while 20 voted for Jordan. This happened after Jordan himself had given his support to McCarthy and asked his party members to vote for him. After that, the number who voted for Jordan actually increased from 19 to 20. Jim Jordan on his way to a vote in the House of Representatives on Tuesday Photo: CHIP SOMODEVILLA / AFP By Wednesday evening, McCarthy must therefore manage to “turn” 15 party members. How he will manage it was a big topic among the analysts in CNN’s studio last night. Neither had faith that it would be an easy match. Among the Democrats, all voted for the party’s candidate, Hakeem Jeffries, in all three constituencies. He got 212 votes. Tove Bjørgaas on new congress leader. 100 years since last Not since 1923 has more than one round of voting been needed to elect a congress leader, writes the BBC. – In 1855, however, they held on for two days before they had elected a congress leader, a guard in the press gallery of the House of Representatives tells news. The House of Representatives has elected leaders 127 times since 1789. It has only happened 14 times previously that politicians have needed multiple votes to elect a new speaker, according to the White House history pages. It’s a big event when Congress, the US legislative assembly, convenes every January in Washington DC The most important thing to happen first in the House of Representatives is to elect a new leader. Before this, they cannot take office. The politicians in the House of Representatives are sworn in by the leader of Congress. The “Speaker” is the third most powerful politician in the country, after the president and vice president. POWERFUL: The House of Representatives is one of the two chambers of the US Congress. A lot of political power lies here. Photo: J. Scott Applewhite / AP McCarthy has been the favorite There has been great excitement about who will take over as leader of Congress after Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Kevin McCarthy from California has been the clear favourite. He has been in Congress for 16 years, but has turned a group of ultra-conservative Republicans against him. They believe he is not conservative enough, and demand that he meet them in several areas, writes CNN. At least five representatives had said in advance that they did not want McCarthy as leader. He can have a maximum of four against him if he is to be elected. Uncertainty spreads McCarthy will probably still be elected in the end, most analysts believed in advance. Anything else would be a historic defeat. But uncertainty is spreading. If McCarthy goes on several defeats, a challenger can quickly appear, writes the New York Times. So far, no one has signed up. But the newspaper mentions Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and Patrick T. McHenry as possible candidates. Steve Scalise and Kevin McCarthy after Scalise nominated McCarthy for speaker. Photo: Alex Brandon / AP Change of power in the House of Representatives After the mid-term elections in November, it became clear that the Republicans will take over the majority in the House of Representatives. However, the Democrats still have a majority in the other chamber, the Senate. Both pluralities are very scarce. In the House of Representatives, the Republicans have 222 representatives, while the Democrats have 213. In the Senate, the Democrats have 51 and the Republicans 49 representatives. But the democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema announced before Christmas that she will be independent and no longer a member of the democratic party group. That makes the democratic majority razor thin. Many freshmen 12 of those now taking seats in the House of Representatives have no political experience. The average age is 46 years. YOUNG: Maxwell Frost is only 25 years old and the youngest in the House of Representatives. Photo: ANNA MONEYMAKER / AFP The proportion of women has decreased compared to the previous congress, while the proportion of blacks has increased. A group of younger democrats well out on the left has also been elected. Maxwell Frost from Florida is the youngest of them. He is only 25 years old. Tougher for President Biden The change of power and the new majority means that it will be a significantly greater challenge for Joe Biden as president, since he has to maneuver through a divided Congress. Until now, Biden has had an easier path with Democratic majorities in both chambers. – The new Congress will be different from what we are used to. It will be the first time Joe Biden has to deal with divided leadership, says political commentator Caitlin Huey-Burns in CBS. The party with a majority in each of the two chambers of Congress gets all the committee chair positions. It is thus the party with the majority that decides the agenda. This means, for example, that the investigation into what happened on 6 January 2021 will not continue. The Republicans are launching new investigations, says Huey-Burns. – The Republicans went to the polls to sort out the economy, and make it financially easier for everyone. We will also see a series of committee hearings against Joe Biden, ministers and perhaps the president’s son, Hunter Biden. PRESIDENT: Joe Biden faces a much bigger challenge with the House of Representatives, when Republicans take over with a narrow majority. Photo: Patrick Semansky / AP Fiasco for Trump Hilmar Mjelde, associate professor of political science at Høgskulen på Vestlandet, tells NTB that President Biden and his team are prepared for the new situation. EXPERT: Associate Professor Hilmar Mjelde says that the White House knows what is coming, with a new majority. Photo: Norce – Biden steels himself. The most important job for the White House now is to protect the president from the Republican attack now coming in the House of Representatives. He adds: – The White House knows what is coming. They have been preparing for a long time by appointing a separate defense team, says Mjelde. Despite a new majority in the House of Representatives, the election result was considered a failure for Donald Trump and the Republicans. The Democrats made a historically good by-election, and thus retained the majority in the Senate. STORMING: A whole world sat in disbelief and watched the storming of the American Congress. And the historic event is still relevant and in the media’s spotlight via the 6 January committee. Photo: JIM LO SCALZO / EPA Storming and investigation It shocked the whole world when the Congress was stormed on 6 January 2021. Five people died in connection with the storming. One of them was a policeman. And the storming continues to receive media attention. An investigative committee links Donald Trump directly to the incident. The committee believes that Trump was part of a criminal conspiracy, and that he has direct responsibility for the acts. The investigators in the House of Representatives in Congress interviewed almost 1,200 people. The committee has also gone through over one million documents, and summoned over 100 witnesses for questioning.
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