Update, 1:51 p.m. Pt: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-oh) won the GOP nomination to become the next House Speaker, but he still appeared to be a ways away from securing a majority.
Jordan got 124 votes in secret balloting this afternoon, to 81 for Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga), according to Punchbowl News and other outlets. Scott got into the race at the last minute earlier today.
Jordan needs 217 votes to win the speakership, although that threshold may change if lawmakers are absent. Jordan requested another secret ballot to see if members would back him in a public vote on the floor of the House, but the vote was 152-55, still far short.
“He’ll get there,” former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted last week, told CNN’s Manu Raju as he exited the GOP conference meeting.
McCarthy said that Jordan has to “just sit down and talk” to the holdouts.
Jordan got 124 votes in secret balloting this afternoon, to 81 for Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga), according to Punchbowl News and other outlets. Scott got into the race at the last minute earlier today.
Jordan needs 217 votes to win the speakership, although that threshold may change if lawmakers are absent. Jordan requested another secret ballot to see if members would back him in a public vote on the floor of the House, but the vote was 152-55, still far short.
“He’ll get there,” former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted last week, told CNN’s Manu Raju as he exited the GOP conference meeting.
McCarthy said that Jordan has to “just sit down and talk” to the holdouts.
- 10/13/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: Kevin McCarthy spoke to reporters for nearly 50 minutes, in which he at first tried to strike a tone of gratitude and positivity about his tenure but then got into some score setting of the eight members who voted to oust him.
He said that they are not conservative but “angry and chaotic.” Of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-Sc), he said, “is a whole other story,” suggesting that she is lying when she says that he hasn’t kept his word.
Of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-fl), who led the effort to remove him, McCarthy said, “You know it was personal. It was not about spending….It was about ethics.” Gaetz is the subject of an ethics committee investigation. “Just because Gaetz said something, don’t believe it’s true. I haven’t heard him say one true thing yet.”
McCarthy also chided Democrats, claiming that before he became speaker, then-House...
He said that they are not conservative but “angry and chaotic.” Of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-Sc), he said, “is a whole other story,” suggesting that she is lying when she says that he hasn’t kept his word.
Of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-fl), who led the effort to remove him, McCarthy said, “You know it was personal. It was not about spending….It was about ethics.” Gaetz is the subject of an ethics committee investigation. “Just because Gaetz said something, don’t believe it’s true. I haven’t heard him say one true thing yet.”
McCarthy also chided Democrats, claiming that before he became speaker, then-House...
- 10/4/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-n.C.) admitted claims he had made about his colleagues inviting him to orgies and doing cocaine in front of him were “exaggerated,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said after admonishing the freshman congressman, according to multiple reports.
“In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away,” McCarthy said, according to Axios.
“I just told him he’s lost my trust,...
“In the interview, he claims he watched people do cocaine. Then when he comes in he tells me, he says he thinks he saw maybe a staffer in a parking garage from 100 yards away,” McCarthy said, according to Axios.
“I just told him he’s lost my trust,...
- 3/30/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-n.C.) said on a podcast earlier this week that fellow lawmakers have invited him to orgies and done cocaine in front of him. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) wants to have a word with him about it, Politico reported on Tuesday.
Multiple Republicans aired their grievances during a closed-door conference meeting, according to the report. They were concerned about being portrayed as sex-crazed drug users, with Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) saying that many of his colleagues don’t stay up past 9 p.m.
Multiple Republicans aired their grievances during a closed-door conference meeting, according to the report. They were concerned about being portrayed as sex-crazed drug users, with Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) saying that many of his colleagues don’t stay up past 9 p.m.
- 3/29/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
The original “Battle of the Billionaires” was a harmless entertainment event, pitting WWE chief Vince McMahon against Donald Trump in Wrestlemania 23. It was notable for being perhaps the last time Trump was not cast as the heel in a public showdown. Nothing was at stake beyond McMahon’s hair, which Trump shaved on camera in the end.
The sequel — a war between Trump and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos — is less entertaining, namely because there is too much that matters at stake. Also, neither one is believable in the Good Guy role.
The sequel — a war between Trump and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos — is less entertaining, namely because there is too much that matters at stake. Also, neither one is believable in the Good Guy role.
- 2/25/2019
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
On Wednesday, Feb. 14, a 19-year-old gunman walked onto the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, armed with what police say was a military-style semi-automatic rifle and countless magazines — and killed at least 17 people. He was a troubled man who had shown repeated signs of being unstable and yet was able to legally obtain a semi-automatic rifle capaable of causing unimaginable carnage.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott called the attack “pure evil” and vowed to have a real conversation about sensible gun legislation, saying, “The violence has to stop. We cannot lose another child in this country to gun violence in a school.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott called the attack “pure evil” and vowed to have a real conversation about sensible gun legislation, saying, “The violence has to stop. We cannot lose another child in this country to gun violence in a school.
- 2/16/2018
- by People Staff
- PEOPLE.com
The Republican National Convention saw highly divided crowds in Cleveland on Monday. According to the New York Times, those in favor and against the Gop's presumptive nominee Donald Trump took to the streets, peacefully protesting their cases in close proximity to each other. Eric Smith, a 36-year-old Trump supporter, reportedly joined hundreds as they congregated at a park for an "America First" rally, where they carried lawn chairs and firearms in an attempt to show the variety of Trump's supporters, as a handful of subgroups - including bikers, truckers and students - were in attendance. "He's never said anything racist,...
- 7/19/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
The Republican National Convention saw highly divided crowds in Cleveland on Monday. According to the New York Times, those in favor and against the Gop's presumptive nominee Donald Trump took to the streets, peacefully protesting their cases in close proximity to each other. Eric Smith, a 36-year-old Trump supporter, reportedly joined hundreds as they congregated at a park for an "America First" rally, where they carried lawn chairs and firearms in an attempt to show the variety of Trump's supporters, as a handful of subgroups - including bikers, truckers and students - were in attendance. "He's never said anything racist,...
- 7/19/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Killer Nashville is proud to launch its first Screenwriting Intensive as part of the Killer Nashville weekend, featuring Hollywood screen and television writers Heywood Gould, April Kelly, Steven Womack, and Philip Cioffari.
Heywood Gould’s screen credits include Cocktail; Rolling Thunder; The Boys from Brazil; Streets of Gold; One Good Cop; Trial by Jury; Mistrial; Double Bang; The Equalizer; N.Y.P.D.; and Fort Apache, the Bronx. Gould will kick off the event at the Killer Nashville Conference… More...
Heywood Gould’s screen credits include Cocktail; Rolling Thunder; The Boys from Brazil; Streets of Gold; One Good Cop; Trial by Jury; Mistrial; Double Bang; The Equalizer; N.Y.P.D.; and Fort Apache, the Bronx. Gould will kick off the event at the Killer Nashville Conference… More...
- 8/19/2012
- by HorrorNews.net
- Horror News
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