House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy won his party's nomination for House Speaker, and will be House Majority Leader if he can't get the votes in January but he won with some pushback from Texas conservatives.
During the House Republican Conference meeting Tuesday to pick its leadership for the next Congress, Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, nominated Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona, as an alternative candidate for speaker in a direct challenge to McCarthy, according to a source familiar with the secret ballot voting process. U.S. Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Victoria, seconded the nomination. Both members belong to the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, which has long challenged the status quo among the Republican conference.
McCarthy must still win 218 votes in the full House of Representatives on January 3rd to become Speaker.
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