{"id":29042,"date":"2023-01-07T05:55:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=29042"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:51","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-is-now-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/01\/07\/kevin-mccarthy-is-now-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy is now Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of 428 votes cast, McCarthy received 216 and the Democrats&#8217; Hakeem Jeffries got 212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House clerk Cheryl Johnson says: &#8220;Therefore, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy, having received a majority of votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican side gives him a standing ovation. They chant: &#8220;USA! USA!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards the back of the room, however, some of the original holdouts, Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert, did not stand up or clap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of 428 votes cast, McCarthy received 216 and the Democrats&#8217; Hakeem Jeffries got 212. House clerk Cheryl Johnson says: &#8220;Therefore, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy, having received a majority of votes cast, is duly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.&#8221; The Republican side gives him a standing ovation. They chant: &#8220;USA! USA!&#8221; Towards the back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[6576,8811,9267,11743,10720,4053,9278,6944,9277,9262],"class_list":["post-29042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-democrats","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-majority","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-mccarthy","tag-repubicians","tag-republican","tag-speaker","tag-united-states"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52231,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29042\/revisions\/52231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}