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House adjourns after chaotic day without electing a speaker as McCarthy fails to lock down votes

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The Debt Ceiling and Kevin McCarthy's Concessions

The day to day functioning of Congress occurs at the committee level. If you can't put people on any appropriations committee or on the ethics committee, then I just don't see how you can run on anything in 2024 that you've done. It's what drove John Boehner from the speakership. Why would Kevin McCarthy hand the rope to his opponents with which they could hang him? That's really what he's doing.

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