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We should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past they ve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like they ve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come, i think the point that you just made and others have made is that this is at large a vision of what we re going to see, possibly, going forward for the next two years in a very chaotic congress. and it has huge consequences. huge consequences for nation, but as we just settle on this moment, we are watching the history being made, because i believe on this 15th ballot kevin mccarthy will finally secure enough votes, whether it s through people voting present or switching votes to him to actually bec ....
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] ....
And if everyone votes the same way this time the way they voted last time, with the exception of andy biggs, then kevin mccarthy will finally on the 15th ballot win the speakership. let s listen in. we still have some more votes. we have lauren boebert to listen to. mccarthy. bishop of georgia. jeffreys. bishop of north carolina, mccarthy. blumenauer? jeffreys. rochester, jeffreys. boebert. present. so lauren boebert votes present, which is what she did last time. again, if matt gaetz continues to vote present or if any other of the holdouts switch, that s it. it does look, i have to say ....
The reading clerk will call the roll. so here we go with the 15th ballot. and while we wait for the readers to come forward, and while we wait there it is. alma adams, the congresswoman from north carolina. the voting has begun. we are waiting to watch, obviously, some key members of congress. the same six that we were watching last time. biggs, boebert, krain, gaetz, good, rosendale. right now all that is needed is one of the noes to vote present or one of the presents to vote yes, and kevin mccarthy certainly seems to think that that is going to happen, jamie. jake, just to follow up on what john king was saying about ....
Representatives. on the 15th ballot there have been other votes that have gone to more ballots, but those were all before the civil war. all of them in the 1800s. it has not happened been this ugly since the 1800s. and it s interesting obviously i don t think we are now in a period like the civil war or the years leading up to the civil war, but we are in an ugly period of politics, and i think that is one of the things being reflected in this ugly vote. we re a divided, a deeply divided country. just two years ago we had an insurrection at the capitol. i mean, i think a lot of people would have thought that was probably as close as you would get to the kind of civil war-type scene. by the way, the capitol was not even breached during the civil war. and here we are. i mean, it s not a surprise to me that this is what s happening on the republican side. matt gaetz is coming up in a ....