After 15 rounds of voting, Bakersfield native Kevin McCarthy finally got the nod for Speaker of the House late Friday night. It was the longest contest for the US House Speakership in 164 years.
In what could be another big blow to the HD Kumaraswamy-led wobbly Congress-JDS government in Karnataka, the lone MLA from Mayawati s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has been asked to skip the trust vote scheduled to be held on Monday, July 22, 2019.