WATCH LIVE: The House reconvenes to vote on speaker
The House gaveled in just after 10 p.m., and after a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, began the 14th vote for the speaker race.
"It's been a long week and a lot of attention has been placed upon us here in the House, but then again I state that to the most famous woman in Washington this week," he said to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson. McCarthy, McHenry said, has allowed members across the Republican conference to have a say in how the House will be run.
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