McCarthy put himself forward to become House speaker in the new 118th Congress for which the GOP won a slim majority in last year's midterm elections.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, left, speaks during his weekly news conference December 5, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. On the right, Representative Lauren Boebert leaves after a House Second Amendment Caucus press conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Boebert voiced a critical response to a late-hour speech Representative McCarthy gave before an anticipated House speaker vote on Tuesday, according to several reports.
"So now here we are being sworn at instead of being sworn in. And we could have had this solved months ago," Boebert said in a
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