这也令麦卡锡成为了美国过去164年以来第一位如此“难产”的议长。
The US House of Representatives elected Congressman Kevin McCarthy as speaker early Saturday morning after a historic deadlock that kept the lower chamber from being fully functional days after the new Congress convened.
McCarthy, a California Republican, clinched enough votes to become House speaker in the 15th round of voting -- the longest contest in 164 years -- after a bitter fight with a group of hardline conservatives and 14 failed ballots.
The 15th and final vote for House speaker gave McCarthy 216 votes, a bare majority that was lower than the normal 218 votes needed because all six of his remaining GOP opponents relented and voted "present."
现场曾有人提名特朗普
Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the Republicans who has refused to back Rep. Kevin McCarthy for House speaker, nominated former President Donald Trump in the 11th round of voting Thursday night.
"I have heard from my colleagues about all the important work we have to do, and it is my sincere fear that if we were to allow Mr. McCarthy to assume the speakership, that would not get done — that it would be business as usual and the very same things that have paralyzed progress for both parties would continue to shackle us to never-ending failure," Gaetz said.
Gaetz voted for Trump during the seventh and eighth ballots earlier.
US President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said earlier this week that it is "embarrassing for the country" not to have a fully functional Congress, the legislature of the federal government.
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