The deeply riven US House of Representatives was engulfed in crisis for a second day running as fresh rounds of voting failed to produce a winner in the race for speaker. | AFP
The stalemate has left the chamber unable to swear in members, fill committees, adopt rules for legislating or negotiate a path through the paralysis.
The 57-year-old former entrepreneur has long coveted the opportunity to replace Democrat Nancy Pelosi, something of an icon in US politics who held the gavel in the last Congress. The former president duly called for an end to the McCarthy blockade, warning the renegade Republicans not to “turn a great triumph into a giant and embarrassing defeat.”
No House business can take place without a speaker, the chamber’s presiding officer who is second in line to the presidency, meaning lawmakers-elect have to continue voting until someone wins a majority.
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