Episode 2345
Kevin McCarthy
Wed, 2023-Oct-04 05:20 UTC
Length - 3:38
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With 319,661 views on Tuesday, 3 October 2023 our article of the day is Kevin McCarthy.
Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician who served as the 55th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he currently represents California's 20th congressional district, which encompasses most of the San Joaquin Valley. Born in Bakersfield, California, McCarthy graduated from California State University, Bakersfield. He served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2002 to 2006, the same year he was first elected to the U. S. House. McCarthy served as the House Republican chief deputy whip from 2009 to 2011 and then as the House majority whip from 2011 to 2014. After House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's re-election loss in the 2014 Republican primary, McCarthy was elected majority leader under speaker John Boehner. McCarthy retained this position during Paul Ryan's speakership. In 2019, following Ryan's retirement, McCarthy was elected house minority leader. When Joe Biden won the 2020 U. S. presidential election, McCarthy supported Donald Trump's debunked claims of voter fraud and initially participated in efforts to overturn the results. After the U. S. Capitol was stormed during the 2021 electoral vote count, McCarthy reversed his previous comments on voter fraud in the election and blamed Trump for the riot. By 2022, he had publicly reconciled with Trump. McCarthy led the House Republicans through the 2022 elections, in which they gained a slim majority.
McCarthy was the Republican nominee for speaker in January 2023, but failed to win the speakership until the 15th ballot. As speaker, after a standoff between the McCarthy-led House Republican conference and the Biden administration, McCarthy and the Biden administration negotiated to resolve the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis and prevent what would have been a first-ever national default. To resolve the crisis, the parties negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which passed with bipartisan support in Congress before Biden signed it into law. Following a vote to remove McCarthy as speaker on October 3, 2023, he was ousted from his position, making his tenure the third-shortest for a Speaker of the House in United States history, and making him the first speaker to ever be removed from the role during a legislative term.
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For the full current version of the article, see Kevin McCarthy on Wikipedia.
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