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Oct 2023
28m 24s

The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCart...

The New York Times
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The vote on Tuesday to remove Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House of Representative has left the chamber mired in chaos. Luke Broadwater, a congressional correspondent for The Times, describes what happened on an unprecedented day in American politics. 
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