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(This is being posted prior to noon on January 6th when the House is scheduled to return to the business of electing a Speaker. Anything can happen anytime.) The multi-day debate and voting over electing a Speaker of the House could be destined for failure for Kevin McCarthy no matter…

It’s reasonable to look at the US Capitol, where the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives has adjourned without managing to elect a speaker and to think new year, same old problem. Same old problem with American democracy, that is. But this is not a problem with American democracy so much…

The GOP extremists are holding the House hostage Normally, we would only pay scant attention to the procedural new US House of Representative leadership election. But this year, it is a drama that needs to be watched closely. The election started yesterday, and because of the far right extremist GOP…

As we begin Day 3 of “Let’s Pick a Speaker,” the divide within the House Majority’s tent clarifies after six votes with no Speaker chosen. That said, the lines of division are not recent — the ideological gulf yawns for all to see. Is it time to speak out loud…

So far, the first rounds talked about the start of the Union and recounted the times over and over slavery and sectional conflicts caused the ballots to go into multiple rounds, recounted in the links below: Part 1 here: https://medium.com/@rudnicknoah/contested-speakership-elections-part-1-the-rise-of-sectionalism-4b4135ab7eea Part 2 here: https://medium.com/@rudnicknoah/multiple-ballot-speakership-elections-part-2-whigging-out-b02ab46e1b00

1855 Election: Knowing Nothing About Electing a Speaker From basically its inception, the Whig coalition was a fusion opposition to the tighter knit Democrats and it was the first to start unraveling due to regional sectionalism brought on by the slavery debate. In the Congress before, the Democrats were firmly…

US House of Representatives Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said on Monday that Iran was making the world less safe by supplying Russia with drones to be used against targets in Ukraine, Reuters reports. “I think Iran is making a big mistake,” Pelosi said after meeting Croatia’s Prime Minister, Andrej Plenkovic. “First…

In Obama’s remarks before signing the (ACA)bill into law, he specifically credited Pelosi as being “one of the best Speakers the House of Representatives has ever had.” Nancy Pelosi is under fire for the recent Democratic loss in the Georgia District 6 special election. …