Will Kevin McCarthy become speaker?

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🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The 118th Congress has begun with a showdown over who will be elected House speaker. Vox’s Andrew Prokop argues that this is the culmination of a decade-long trend of stonewalling in Congress. Today’s show was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin. It was edited by Amina Al-Sadi and was fact-checked by Serena Solin. It was engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and hosted by Noel King Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go again.
0:04.1	Our nation's representatives gathered today to try it again to elect a speaker of the
0:08.8	House.
0:09.8	They nominated Hakeem Jeffries.
0:11.8	They nominated Kevin McCarthy.
0:13.2	It's about our nation's future.
0:15.8	The person who will lead us on that journey will be Kevin McCarthy.
0:18.8	He has earned this position.
0:20.3	They nominated Kevin Hurne.
0:22.3	They nominated Jim Jordan.
0:24.4	Earlier today, Kevin McCarthy was on a conference call trying to appease the Republicans who are
0:28.1	refusing to back his bid for speaker.
0:30.6	The compromises that he has made would diminish his power as speaker, but after...
0:35.0	13.
0:36.0	Failed votes.
0:37.0	McCarthy seems to have decided it's worth it.
0:39.4	We need to talk about Kevin coming up on today's plate.
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