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Welcome to the morning show podcast.

My name is Anthony.

I'm Carla Marie.

And today is Wednesday, January 4th, 2020.

The Core 4.

The four headlines you need to know.

Yesterday marked the first day of the new Congress with all the winners from November's

midterm elections finally taking office. And one of the first things that has to take place

in order for the House of Representatives to get anything done is having members of the House

vote for a new Speaker of the House. And for the last 100 years, that vote has taken place

and the party with the majority has confirmed their choice on the first try. But yesterday,

for the first time in 100 years, the majority leader didn't collect enough votes to be

confirmed as the Speaker of the House. Now, here's the quick math. There are 222 Republicans in the House

of Representatives. Representative Kevin McCarthy would need to collect 218 votes to be chosen as the

Speaker. In the first two votes, he collected 203, meaning every Democrat and 19 Republicans

voted against him.

By the third time around, he actually lost an additional Republican vote.

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