The 55th speaker of the House of Representatives was booted out in a shock vote brought by rebels in his own party who have seethed in the nine months since McCarthy narrowly quelled their attempts to block him and managed to claim the most powerful job in Congress. No other speaker — a position second in line from the presidency in the federal hierarchy — has been ousted in US history. It was an undignified end — for now, at least — to an unstable, unauthoritative tenure by a lawmaker…
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