The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The vote on Tuesday to remove Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representative has left the chamber mired in chaos. Luke Broadwater, a congressional correspondent for The Times, describes what happened on an unprecedented day in American politics.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
0:04.0	This is Adelaide.
0:12.0	Today, for the first time in American history,
0:16.0	the United States House of Representatives has voted to remove its leader.
0:22.0	My colleague, Luke Baudwater, was there as it happened.
0:30.0	It's Wednesday, October 4.
0:42.0	Luke, it's 5 p.m. on Tuesday night.
0:46.0	And we come to you at a truly strange moment because the United States House of Representatives
0:52.0	has no speaker, right?
0:54.0	It is leaderless.
0:56.0	Yes. For the first time in American history,
1:00.0	the House of Representatives have voted to essentially kick out the speaker of the House
1:06.0	and leave the speakership vacant, meaning that as of right now,
1:12.0	there is no one in charge of the United States House of Representatives.
1:16.0	Right. And it feels worth pausing for just a moment to reflect on the enormity of that.
1:22.0	I mean, this is the most important member of the legislative branch,
1:26.0	the United States House speaker.
1:28.0	Third in line to the presidency in the constitutional order of succession.
1:34.0	And suddenly, that person has been removed from office,
1:38.0	and the chamber itself has no speaker.
1:40.0	It's just harder out your head around.
1:42.0	Yeah, it's never happened before in history for a reason,
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