Tell us a gree in their tallies that the total number votes cast is 428 of which the honorable Kevin McCarty of the state of California has received 216.

Therefore, the honorable Kevin McCarty of the state of California have received a majority of the votes cast is duly elected speaker of the House of Representatives.

In this episode of Newt's World, I thought we had to take some time to talk about everything that has happened this week in the House of Representatives. As a former speaker of the House, I found myself with Calista staying up until 2 o'clock in the morning as Kevin McCarty was voted as speaker on the 15th vote and then gave I thought a very fine speech shortly after the Democratic leader gave I thought a remarkably mediocre speech, but that may be partly my bias.

As you can imagine, there has been an amazing amount going on behind the scenes in order to bring the Republican conference together.

It took 15 votes. That is the most votes since 1855 when it took 133 votes and two months I reassured Kevin at one point that while he might break the earlier records, he was not going to break the all time 1855 record which started with 23 candidates for speaker and literally took 133 votes.

I also wanted to remind everyone that no matter how narrow the vote is, it doesn't automatically tell you what the future was. Then he has stood at one point at a five vote margin.

Speaker Pelosi in the last Congress had exactly the same margin as Kevin McCarty has now. She managed to pass trillion dollar bills and left wing legislation. So you don't know what's going to happen. Furthermore, it doesn't foretell the future.

The last big vote for nine times for speaker in 1923, exactly 100 years ago, 22 more Republicans were elected in the following election in 1924 and Calvin Coolidge was elected in the landslide.

We don't know whether this narrow majority and this remarkably long 15 vote Odyssey tells us much about the future except that it does show that Kevin McCarty in fact never gives up.

I told him at one point he ought to start saying that Lakeville Clinton is the comeback kid because a lot of people fought during the week that it was hopeless.

It was over the week started with 20 holdups voting against McCarthy and ended the week with the never Kevin's registering their vote is present and McCarthy becoming speaker, but it took a lot of work all week.

I want to start by just saying congratulations Kevin well done. I know you'll do a great job in front of you who have not heard it we're going to link to Kevin's speech which I thought was very well done when he became speaker and included some really powerful references to both Lincoln and Washington things I know Kevin believes in that are real part of who he is.

Now many of you asked me during the week why it took 15 rounds of voting to elect a speaker and I thought it'll be useful remember that this has happened 14 times before the House has elected a speaker 127 times since 1789 I was two of those there have been 14 examples of speaker elections requiring more to rebel us now 13 of the 14 were before the Civil War.

When the party divisions were different in that really long 133 ballot version that took two months that was as the parties were collapsing under the pressure of slavery and succession the last time a speaker election required two or more votes in the floor was in 1923.

So if you go back in look in the third Congress 1793 it took three ballots in the sixth Congress 1799 it took two ballots in the ninth Congress in 1805 three ballots in the 11th Congress 1809 with 2 bogus the 16th Congress and 1819 with 22 ballots the 17th Congress and 1821 with 12 ballots.

the 19th Congress in 1825 with two ballots, the 23rd Congress in 1833 with 10 ballots,

the 26th Congress in 1839 with 11 ballots, the 30th Congress in 1847 with three,

the 31st Congress in 1849 with 63 ballots as you see the system starting to break down,

and then the 34th Congress setting the Altar M record in 1855 with 133 ballots as I mentioned earlier.

The 36th Congress just on the evil of war took 44 ballots and then everything stabilized

as the two parties sort of matured and became stable and you didn't get to another multi-ballot fight until 1923

when it took nine ballots for President Yalvan Colleges candidate to win the speakership.

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