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McCarthy takes vote losses to six as US House of Representatives adjourns again

Guardian, 05 Jan 2023
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy failed for the sixth time in two days to capture the speaker’s gavel.
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After the House adjourned for a few hours, McCarthy and his allies went into negotiations with the Republican holdouts without a clear path forward to end the standoff, then pushed back a seventh vote on the House leadership until Thursday.

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