speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause] that was easy, you write? i never thought we d get up here. my father always told me, it s not how you start it s how you finish and now we need to finish strong for the american people. to leader jeffries, there will be times we agree, and many tanks we will defer. i promise our debates will be passionate, but they will never be personal. but that s my commitment to you. after taking his own oath of office says the speakers were in the members of the 118th congress and despite making a broad range of concessions, speaker mccarthy only won his office with 216 votes. too short
power going forward so that they can tear down the house, so they can stop the house from acting on a debt ceiling, so that can stop the house from acting when they need to fund the government going forward. i think it s that context that makes this particularly troubling, not the fact that there were so many votes. and i want to say something really quick, this happens not in, more but on the two year anniversary of january six and here s the deal, a lot of people making these deals were part of that. they were responsible for that. and kevin mccarthy helped organize the rally on january six. he didn t show it in the mccarthy press conference but early in that press conference he thanked president trump were calling the holdouts and helping them push over the line. so i think when you put that in the broader context, this
speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in after waiting on the historic 15th ballot. it is not my solemn responsibility to hand over the peoples gavel. look to a son of bakersfield, a former small business owner, a proud product of a firefighters household. but the gentleman from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118 congress, kevin mccarthy. [applause]