House adjourns after Kevin McCarthy falls short in three rounds of voting for speaker – as it happened
by Maanvi Singh (now) and Joanna Walters (earlier) from US news | The Guardian on (#67E2J)
Leader of slim Republican majority has been negotiating to secure backing of hardliners but voting could go to multiple rounds
A crescendo of bipartisan outrage will accompany the swearing in due today of George Santos, one of the Republican party's most controversial new Congress members, who has admitted large parts of his biography are a fantasy.
The New York politician, caught in lies over his family background, education and work history, is facing calls to step down from several senior figures within his own party before he even sets foot on the floor of the chamber.
Continue reading...