House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers, frays relationships and roils Washington
Night falls on the dome of the Capitol, hours after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers who had been sitting in stunned silence gasped at the declaration: The office of speaker "is hereby declared vacant."
For the first time ever, a House speaker had been voted out of the position, plunging Congress into a new degree of turmoil...
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