Hello fellow political junkies! In yet another week of unprecedented times, we are still without a Speaker of the House after 17 days and four votes this week relating to two Republicans who failed to get the 217 votes needed to become Speaker. However, each time, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York got […]
Frederick Gillet & the Fight for Speaker By Ray Hill The mutiny earlier this year inside the GOP caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives is not new, although it hasn’t happened in a long while. In fact, the last time it did occur was one hundred years ago in 1923. Upon that occasion, […]