Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has joined forces ... itself as a "pet pharmaceutical company." McCarthy obtained the speaker's gavel in 2023 after a whopping 15 rounds of balloting.

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year since Kevin McCarthy was booted from the House speaker ... to vacate the speaker — the new leader’s ability to hold on to the speaker’s gavel for the long ...

President-elect Donald Trump told House Republicans on Wednesday that he supports Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to hold the ...

For the House, it ended in much the same ... The 118th Congress’ opening note was a grapple for the speaker’s gavel, which former Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ultimately secured through ...

Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) joked that his sister sent him “the cruelest things” people said about him on the internet after his famous gavel ... of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson ... when it took former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) 15 ballots over four days to clinch the gavel. Here’s how the math breaks down: The Speaker is elected ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Mike Johnson is beginning the hard fight for his gavel, a weeks-long campaign that starts Wednesday during internal House ... former speaker Kevin McCarthy more than ...

Why it matters: This avoids an internal revolt but leaves him needing a best-case election result to avoid former House Speaker Kevin ... McCarthy needed 15 excruciating ballots to win the gavel.

Trump’s stamp of approval on Johnson’s speakership bid comes before what is widely expected to be a brutal contest for the gavel on ... former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), ...

It’s easy to forget that after a group of House Republicans successfully ousted then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy ... his own members — to take away his gavel. A Politico headline published at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year since Kevin McCarthy was booted from the House speaker ... to vacate the speaker — the new leader’s ability to hold on to the speaker’s gavel for the long ...