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On October 3, 2023, the United States House of Representatives voted to remove its speaker, Kevin McCarthy of California, through a motion to vacate [a] filed by Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, a fellow member of the Republican Party. McCarthy's removal marked the first time in American history that a speaker of the House was removed ...
A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for California's 20th congressional district from 2007 until his resignation in 2023. McCarthy graduated from California State University, Bakersfield. He served two terms as a member of the California State Assembly before being elected to the U.S. House in 2006. McCarthy served ...
After serving as Republican leader in the California Assembly, McCarthy in 2006 became one of the few GOP newcomers to be elected to Congress in a year Democrats swept Republicans out of power ...
McCarthy’s timeline means he would depart before the Feb. 13 special election to replace expelled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., further cutting the Republican majority to 220 members to 213 Democrats.
McCarthy has represented the area around his hometown in Congress for 17 years. Kevin McCarthy leaving Congress at year’s end. Was first California Republican as House speaker
McCarthy in 2023. Kevin McCarthy is a United States representative from California and the former speaker of the United States House of Representatives.Before entering electoral politics, he served on the staff of Congressman Bill Thomas and was chair of the Young Republican National Federation between 1999 and 2001.
When Republicans recaptured four California congressional seats in 2022, it helped the GOP win control of the House and Kevin McCarthy become speaker. But McCarthy has been ousted and the state ...
Republicans retained their slim majority in the House of Representatives, despite losing a seat, during the 2024 United States House of Representatives elections. [17] With a two seat larger majority, in the January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, a faction of the Republican majority, mostly represented by the Freedom Caucus, refused to support Republican ...