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<a class="vector-toc-link" href="#House_majority_whip"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>House majority whip</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-House_majority_whip-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-House_majority_leader" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#House_majority_leader"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>House majority leader</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-House_majority_leader-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unsuccessful_2015_candidacy_for_speaker_of_the_House" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unsuccessful_2015_candidacy_for_speaker_of_the_House"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Unsuccessful 2015 candidacy for speaker of the House</span> </div> </a> <ul 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<ul id="toc-Nomination-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tenure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tenure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8.2</span> <span>Tenure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tenure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Removal_as_House_Speaker" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Removal_as_House_Speaker"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8.3</span> <span>Removal as House Speaker</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Removal_as_House_Speaker-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-speakership_and_resignation_from_Congress" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-speakership_and_resignation_from_Congress"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Post-speakership and resignation from Congress</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post-speakership_and_resignation_from_Congress-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%8A" title="كيفن مكارثي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كيفن مكارثي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="کوین مک‌کارتی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کوین مک‌کارتی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(pol%C3%ADtic)" title="Kevin McCarthy (polític) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (polític)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(californisk_politiker)" title="Kevin McCarthy (californisk politiker) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (californisk politiker)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(Politiker)" title="Kevin McCarthy (Politiker) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (Politiker)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%AD%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BD_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%9A%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B8%CE%B9" title="Κέβιν ΜακΚάρθι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κέβιν ΜακΚάρθι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(pol%C3%ADtico)" title="Kevin McCarthy (político) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (político)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C" title="کوین مک‌کارتی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کوین مک‌کارتی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(homme_politique,_1965)" title="Kevin McCarthy (homme politique, 1965) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (homme politique, 1965)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BC%80%EB%B9%88_%EB%A7%A4%EC%B9%B4%EC%8B%9C_(%EC%A0%95%EC%B9%98%EC%9D%B8)" title="케빈 매카시 (정치인) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="케빈 매카시 (정치인)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(politico)" title="Kevin McCarthy (politico) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (politico)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%99_(%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%99)" title="קווין מקארתי (פוליטיקאי) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קווין מקארתי (פוליטיקאי)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%99-%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%98" title="კევინ მაკ-კართი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კევინ მაკ-კართი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coemgenus_McCarthy" title="Coemgenus McCarthy – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Coemgenus McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(politikus)" title="Kevin McCarthy (politikus) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (politikus)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AB%D9%89" title="كيفين مكارثى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كيفين مكارثى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(ahli_politik_California)" title="Kevin McCarthy (ahli politik California) – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (ahli politik California)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%80%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%97%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%99%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%80%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9E%E1%80%AE_(%E1%80%80%E1%80%9A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AE%E1%80%96%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%AE%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8_%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9E%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8)" title="ကယ်ဗင် မက်ကာသီ (ကယ်လီဖိုးနီယား နိုင်ငံရေးသမား) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ကယ်ဗင် မက်ကာသီ (ကယ်လီဖိုးနီယား နိုင်ငံရေးသမား)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(politicus)" title="Kevin McCarthy (politicus) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (politicus)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" 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hreflang="uz" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kevin McCarthy" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(pol%C3%ADtico)" title="Kevin McCarthy (político) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Kevin McCarthy (político)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a 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href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>&#160;–&#32;October 3, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Mike Johnson</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Minority Leader</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2019&#160;–&#32;January 3, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Whip</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise">Steve Scalise</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Nancy Pelosi</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries" title="Hakeem Jeffries">Hakeem Jeffries</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the <a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">House Republican Conference</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2019&#160;–&#32;October 3, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise">Steve Scalise</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mike Johnson</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Majority Leader</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />August 1, 2014&#160;–&#32;January 3, 2019</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Speaker</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a><br />Paul Ryan</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor">Eric Cantor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Steny_Hoyer" title="Steny Hoyer">Steny Hoyer</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Majority Whip</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2011&#160;–&#32;August 1, 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Speaker</th><td class="infobox-data">John Boehner</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jim_Clyburn" title="Jim Clyburn">Jim Clyburn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Steve Scalise</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Republican Chief Deputy Whip</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2009&#160;–&#32;January 3, 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data">John Boehner</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Eric Cantor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Roskam" title="Peter Roskam">Peter Roskam</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S.&#32;House&#32;of&#32;Representatives</a></span><br />from California</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2007&#160;–&#32;December 31, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Thomas" title="Bill Thomas">Bill Thomas</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vince_Fong" title="Vince Fong">Vince Fong</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><span data-sort-value="California22&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/California%27s_22nd_congressional_district" title="California&#39;s 22nd congressional district">22nd district</a></span> (2007–2013)<br /><span data-sort-value="California23&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/California%27s_23rd_congressional_district" title="California&#39;s 23rd congressional district">23rd district</a></span> (2013–2023)<br /><span data-sort-value="California20&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/California%27s_20th_congressional_district" title="California&#39;s 20th congressional district">20th district</a></span> (2023)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Minority Leader of the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" 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/>from the <a href="/wiki/California%27s_32nd_State_Assembly_district" title="California&#39;s 32nd State Assembly district">32nd</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 2, 2002&#160;–&#32;November 30, 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roy_Ashburn" title="Roy Ashburn">Roy Ashburn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Fuller" title="Jean Fuller">Jean Fuller</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Kevin Owen McCarthy</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1965-01-26</span>) </span>January 26, 1965<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;59)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bakersfield,_California" title="Bakersfield, California">Bakersfield, California</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output 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of a <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Strategic_Competition_between_the_United_States_and_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party">Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party</a><br />Recorded January 10, 2023</div></div></div></div> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Kevin Owen McCarthy</b> (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician who served as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives">55th</a> <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">speaker of the United States House of Representatives</a> from January to October 2023. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, he was the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. representative</a> for <a href="/wiki/California%27s_20th_congressional_district" title="California&#39;s 20th congressional district">California's 20th congressional district</a> from 2007 until his resignation in 2023. </p><p>McCarthy graduated from <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Bakersfield" title="California State University, Bakersfield">California State University, Bakersfield</a>. He served two terms as a member of the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a> before being elected to the U.S. House in 2006. McCarthy served as the House Republican chief deputy whip from 2009 to 2011 and as House majority whip from 2011 to 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After House Majority Leader <a href="/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor">Eric Cantor</a>'s reelection loss in the 2014 Republican primary, McCarthy was elected majority leader under speaker <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a>. He retained that position during <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a>'s speakership. In 2019, after Ryan retired, McCarthy was elected House Minority Leader.<sup id="cite_ref-MinorityLeader_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MinorityLeader-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Minority Leader, McCarthy supported <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s debunked <a href="/wiki/Big_lie#Donald_Trump&#39;s_false_claims_of_a_stolen_election" title="Big lie">claims of voter fraud</a> after <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> won the <a href="/wiki/2020_U.S._presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 U.S. presidential election">2020 U.S. presidential election</a> and initially <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">participated in efforts to overturn the results</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">U.S. Capitol was stormed</a> during the 2021 electoral vote count, McCarthy reversed his previous comments on voter fraud in the election and blamed Trump for the riot.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2022, he had publicly reconciled with Trump.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberman20210127_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberman20210127-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TampaBayTimes20210128_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TampaBayTimes20210128-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy led the House Republicans through <a href="/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections">the 2022 elections</a>, in which they gained a slimmer-than-expected majority. </p><p>McCarthy was the Republican <a href="/wiki/January_2023_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">nominee for speaker in January 2023</a>, but did not win the speakership on the first attempt, only securing the office after days of successive votes and negotiations within his own party as well as a historic 15 different ballots.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Forbes_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forbes-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As Speaker, McCarthy dealt with a standoff between the House Republican conference and <a href="/wiki/Biden_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Biden administration">Biden administration</a> that led to the <a href="/wiki/2023_United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" title="2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis">2023 debt-ceiling crisis</a> and what would have been a first-ever national default. To resolve the crisis, the parties negotiated the <a href="/wiki/Fiscal_Responsibility_Act_of_2023" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023">Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023</a>, which passed with bipartisan support in Congress before Biden signed it into law.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2023, McCarthy relied on Democrats to help pass a bipartisan <a href="/wiki/Continuing_resolution" title="Continuing resolution">continuing resolution</a> to avert a <a href="/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States" title="Government shutdowns in the United States">government shutdown</a>. As a result, Republican congressman <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a> filed a <a href="/wiki/Motion_to_vacate_the_chair" title="Motion to vacate the chair">motion to vacate</a> against McCarthy.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following a largely unprecedented House floor debate between members of the majority party, McCarthy was <a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Kevin_McCarthy_as_Speaker_of_the_House" title="Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House">voted out as speaker</a> on October 3, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His tenure was the <a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#Speakers_by_time_in_office" title="List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives">third-shortest</a> for a Speaker of the House in United States history,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and he became the first speaker to ever be removed from the role during a legislative session.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy resigned as a member of the House at the end of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-retirement_2023_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retirement_2023-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> <p>McCarthy was born on January 26, 1965, in <a href="/wiki/Bakersfield,_California" title="Bakersfield, California">Bakersfield, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is the son of Owen McCarthy<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> an assistant city fire chief,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Roberta Darlene (née Palladino),<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Homemaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Homemaker">homemaker</a>. McCarthy is a fourth-generation resident of Kern County. His maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy is the first Republican in his immediate family, as his parents were members of the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NRCottle10262010_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRCottle10262010-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He attended <a href="/wiki/Bakersfield_High_School" title="Bakersfield High School">Bakersfield High School</a>, where he played on the football team, from 1979 to 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1984, at age 19, McCarthy ran his first business selling sandwiches out of the back of his uncle's yogurt shop on Stine Road.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was able to finance this business after winning $5,000 in the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Lottery" title="California State Lottery">California State Lottery</a> and subsequently investing these winnings in the stock market.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy attended <a href="/wiki/California_State_University,_Bakersfield" title="California State University, Bakersfield">California State University, Bakersfield</a>, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in marketing in 1989 and a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">Master of Business Administration</a> in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> During college, he worked as a seasonal firefighter for the <a href="/wiki/Kern_County_Fire_Department" class="mw-redirect" title="Kern County Fire Department">Kern County Fire Department</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career">Early political career</h2></div> <p>McCarthy served on the staff of Congressman <a href="/wiki/Bill_Thomas" title="Bill Thomas">Bill Thomas</a> from 1987 to 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1995, he chaired the California <a href="/wiki/Young_Republicans" title="Young Republicans">Young Republicans</a>. From 1999 to 2001, he chaired the <a href="/wiki/Young_Republican_National_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Republican National Federation">Young Republican National Federation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NRCottle10262010_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRCottle10262010-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From the late 1990s until 2000, he was Thomas's district director.<sup id="cite_ref-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy won his first election in 2000, as a <a href="/wiki/Kern_Community_College_District" title="Kern Community College District">Kern Community College District</a> trustee.<sup id="cite_ref-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy_40-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thomas has since criticized McCarthy in numerous interviews.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy was elected to the <a href="/wiki/California_State_Assembly" title="California State Assembly">California State Assembly</a> in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He became the Republican floor leader in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2006, McCarthy was first elected to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> as a representative for California's 22nd district.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He succeeded his former boss, Bill Thomas,<sup id="cite_ref-Jan6_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jan6-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who retired.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The district was renumbered as the 23rd district in 2013,<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2023)">better&#160;source&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> and again as the 20th district in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (October 2023)">better&#160;source&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Committee_assignments">Committee assignments</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Financial_Services" title="United States House Committee on Financial Services">Committee on Financial Services</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Capital_Markets,_Insurance,_and_Government-Sponsored_Enterprises" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises">Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government-Sponsored Enterprises</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Financial_Services_Subcommittee_on_Financial_Institutions_and_Consumer_Credit" class="mw-redirect" title="United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit">Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><b>Caucus memberships</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Western_Caucus" title="Congressional Western Caucus">Congressional Western Caucus</a><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_leadership">Party leadership</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steering_and_Policy_Committees_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Steering and Policy Committees of the United States House of Representatives">House Republican steering committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Republican Chief Deputy Whip</a>, 2009–2011</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Majority Whip</a>, 2011–2014</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Majority Leader</a>, 2014–2019</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Minority Leader</a>, 2019–2023</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker of the House</a>, January to October 2023</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_leadership_posts">Early leadership posts</h3></div> <p>As a freshman congressman, McCarthy was appointed to the Republican Steering committee. Republican leader John Boehner appointed him chair of the Republican platform committee during the committee's meetings in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a> in August 2008, which produced the Republican Party Platform for 2008. He was also one of the three founding members of the <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee#Young_Guns_Program" title="National Republican Congressional Committee">GOP Young Guns Program</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 elections</a>, he was chosen as chief deputy minority whip, the highest-ranking appointed position in the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Conference_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Republican Conference of the United States House of Representatives">House Republican Conference</a>. His predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor">Eric Cantor</a>, was named minority whip. McCarthy helped recruit candidates associated with the <a href="/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections">2010 U.S. House elections</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McCarthy_2009_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCarthy_2009-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_majority_whip">House majority whip</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:KMcCarthy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/KMcCarthy.jpg/220px-KMcCarthy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/KMcCarthy.jpg/330px-KMcCarthy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/KMcCarthy.jpg/440px-KMcCarthy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="398" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy at a 2008 oversight hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power</figcaption></figure><p>On November 17, 2010, the House Republican Conference selected McCarthy to be the <a href="/wiki/Majority_Whip_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives">House majority whip</a> in the <a href="/wiki/112th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="112th Congress">112th Congress</a>. In this post, he was the third-ranking House Republican, behind <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">Speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> and <a href="/wiki/Majority_Leader_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives">majority leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Eric_Cantor" title="Eric Cantor">Eric Cantor</a>. </p><p>In August 2011, McCarthy and Cantor led a group of 30 Republican members of Congress to Israel, where some members took part in a late-night swim in the <a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Galilee" title="Sea of Galilee">Sea of Galilee</a>, including one member—<a href="/wiki/Kevin_Yoder" title="Kevin Yoder">Kevin Yoder</a>—who swam nude.<sup id="cite_ref-BashWalsh_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BashWalsh-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When McCarthy and Cantor later found out about the swim, they were "furious" and worried about negative news coverage, and "called a members-only meeting the next morning to reprimand the group—both those who swam and those who abstained".<sup id="cite_ref-BashWalsh_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BashWalsh-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2012, McCarthy's office reported spending $99,000 on pastries, bottled water, and other food items, making him the highest-spending member of the House in this category.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_majority_leader">House majority leader</h3></div> <p>Cantor lost the June 2014 primary for his seat in Congress, and announced he would step down from House leadership at the end of July. McCarthy sought to succeed Cantor, and after some speculation that <a href="/wiki/Pete_Sessions" title="Pete Sessions">Pete Sessions</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeb_Hensarling" title="Jeb Hensarling">Jeb Hensarling</a> would challenge him, both dropped out, leaving McCarthy a clear path to become majority leader.<sup id="cite_ref-RollCall612_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RollCall612-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On June 13, representative <a href="/wiki/Raul_Labrador" class="mw-redirect" title="Raul Labrador">Raul Labrador</a> announced he would also seek the leadership position.<sup id="cite_ref-ReutersLabrador_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReutersLabrador-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On June 19, the <a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">Republican Conference</a> elected McCarthy majority leader.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p> According to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Humphrey_School_of_Public_Affairs" title="Humphrey School of Public Affairs">Humphrey School of Public Affairs</a>, McCarthy is the least-tenured majority leader in the history of the House of Representatives. When he assumed the position in July 2014, he had served only seven years, six months and 29 days, the least experience of any floor leader in the House's history by more than a year.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg/220px-RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg/330px-RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg/440px-RR_Centennial_Celebration.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1837" data-file-height="1243" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Norman_L._Eisen" class="mw-redirect" title="Norman L. Eisen">Norman L. Eisen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a> and McCarthy in Prague, Czech Republic, 2011</figcaption></figure><p>McCarthy kept four of his predecessor's staff members on his staff when he took over as majority leader, including deputy chief of staff Neil Bradley, who now has served in that role for three majority leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy has been under fire for avoiding meetings and town-hall events with constituents in his congressional district for years.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His last town hall was in June 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He has opted for screened telephone calls since.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2017, McCarthy voted for the <a href="/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017">House Republican tax legislation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Almukhtar_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Almukhtar-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the vote, he asked his constituents to "Come February, check your check, because that will be the pay raise of the vote for Donald Trump."<sup id="cite_ref-WN122217_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WN122217-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An October 2018 investigation documented how William "Bill" Wages, of McCarthy's brother-in-law's company Vortex Construction, has received $7.6 million since 2000 in no-bid and other prime federal contracts as a minority business (a claim that has been disputed). The work was mostly for construction projects at the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Weapons_Station_China_Lake" title="Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake">Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake</a> in McCarthy's Bakersfield-based district, and <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Lemoore" title="Naval Air Station Lemoore">Naval Air Station Lemoore</a> in California's Kings County.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unsuccessful_2015_candidacy_for_speaker_of_the_House">Unsuccessful 2015 candidacy for speaker of the House</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/October_2015_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election</a></div> <p>On September 25, 2015, <a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">John Boehner</a> decided to resign as <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">speaker</a> effective October 30, 2015. Many media outlets speculated that McCarthy would likely replace him,<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Boehner himself said that McCarthy "would make an excellent speaker".<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 28, McCarthy formally announced his candidacy.<sup id="cite_ref-foxspeaker1_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foxspeaker1-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Having held congressional office for less than nine years, McCarthy would have been the speaker with the least time in Congress since 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a September 29, 2015, interview with Fox News's <a href="/wiki/Sean_Hannity" title="Sean Hannity">Sean Hannity</a>, McCarthy was asked what Republicans had accomplished in Congress. He replied by talking about the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Benghazi" title="United States House Select Committee on Benghazi">House of Representatives' special panel investigation</a> into the <a href="/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack" title="2012 Benghazi attack">2012 Benghazi attack</a> (in which Islamic militants attacked the American diplomatic compound in <a href="/wiki/Benghazi" title="Benghazi">Benghazi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>). Republicans said the purpose of the government-funded committee was purely to investigate the deaths of four Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> But McCarthy said, "Everybody thought <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a> was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened had we not fought."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The comment was seen as an admission that the investigation was a partisan political undertaking rather than a substantive inquiry.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some commentators described his remark as a classic "<a href="/wiki/Kinsley_gaffe" class="mw-redirect" title="Kinsley gaffe">Kinsley gaffe</a>" (defined as when a politician accidentally tells the truth).<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The remark was also described as "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/say_the_quiet_part_loud" class="extiw" title="wikt:say the quiet part loud">saying the quiet part loud</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williamson-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Several days later, McCarthy apologized for the remarks and said the Benghazi panel was not a political initiative.<sup id="cite_ref-Moe2015_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moe2015-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 8, 2015, as Republicans were preparing to vote, McCarthy unexpectedly dropped out of the race, saying that Republicans needed a fresh face who could unite the caucus and "I am not that guy."<sup id="cite_ref-Chaos_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaos-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He reportedly dropped out after concluding that he did not have the 218 votes that would be required to be elected speaker.<sup id="cite_ref-Moe2015_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moe2015-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy remained majority leader.<sup id="cite_ref-Chaos_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaos-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Moe2015_81-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moe2015-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Benghazi gaffe contributed to his decision to withdraw from the race,<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williamson-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chaos_83-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaos-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as McCarthy acknowledged in announcing his withdrawal.<sup id="cite_ref-Chaos_83-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chaos-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Previously, Representative <a href="/wiki/Walter_B._Jones_Jr." title="Walter B. Jones Jr.">Walter B. Jones Jr.</a> had sent a letter to the Republican Conference Chairwoman <a href="/wiki/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers" title="Cathy McMorris Rodgers">Cathy McMorris Rodgers</a> stating that any candidates for a leadership position with "misdeeds" should withdraw from the race. Jones has said that his comment did not specifically refer to McCarthy.<sup id="cite_ref-McClatchy_DC_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McClatchy_DC-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Paul Ryan</a> instead won the 2015 election and became speaker from 2015 to 2019. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_minority_leader">House minority leader</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kevin_McCarthy,_official_photo,_116th_Congress_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg/220px-Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg/330px-Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg/440px-Kevin_McCarthy%2C_official_photo%2C_116th_Congress_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1406" data-file-height="1875" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy as house minority leader, 2019</figcaption></figure> <p>After the Republicans lost their majority in the 2018 elections, McCarthy was elected Minority Leader, fending off a challenge to his right from <a href="/wiki/Jim_Jordan" title="Jim Jordan">Jim Jordan</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, 159–43. While as majority leader he had been the second-ranking <a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">House Republican</a> behind Ryan, as minority leader he was now the leader of the House Republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-MinorityLeader_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MinorityLeader-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy has been a strong supporter of <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> since 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-Zanona_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zanona-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As minority leader, he remained a close Trump ally, keeping the Republican caucus unified in support of Trump and against <a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">his impeachment</a> on two <a href="/wiki/Article_of_impeachment" title="Article of impeachment">articles</a> of <a href="/wiki/Federal_impeachment_in_the_United_States" title="Federal impeachment in the United States">impeachment</a> arising from the <a href="/wiki/Trump-Ukraine_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Trump-Ukraine scandal">Trump-Ukraine scandal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_80-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williamson-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy associated with key figures in Trump's effort to enlist the Ukrainian government in discrediting <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>, Trump's political opponent; such figures included <a href="/wiki/Lev_Parnas" title="Lev Parnas">Lev Parnas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudolph_W._Giuliani" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph W. Giuliani">Rudolph W. Giuliani</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Hyde" title="Robert F. Hyde">Robert F. Hyde</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Williamson_80-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Williamson-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like Trump, McCarthy supported <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>, a Republican candidate in 2020 for a U.S. House seat from <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Georgia" title="Northwest Georgia">northwest Georgia</a>; Greene's past racist, anti-Semitic comments and her promotion of <a href="/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon">QAnon</a> (a far-right <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a>) led other Republicans to distance themselves from her.<sup id="cite_ref-Zanona_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zanona-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy did not take steps to thwart Greene's candidacy and did not endorse her opponent in the Republican primary runoff election.<sup id="cite_ref-Zanona_86-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zanona-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Greene was nominated, McCarthy denounced the fringe conspiracy, saying, "There is no place for QAnon in the Republican Party", and said that Greene had distanced herself from her earlier statements.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2020, McCarthy was asked about Trump's false claims that <a href="/wiki/Joe_Scarborough" title="Joe Scarborough">Joe Scarborough</a> (an MSNBC host and former Republican congressman) was linked to the death of a staff member; a few House Republicans criticized Trump for making inflammatory and false statements, but McCarthy declined to take a position.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy's predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Thomas" title="Bill Thomas">Bill Thomas</a>, for whom McCarthy served as a staffer from 1987 through 2002, excoriated McCarthy for his failure to accept the result of the 2020 presidential election and unwillingness to fully confront Trump for his role in precipitating and maintaining the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Jan6_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jan6-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2020, during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United States">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, McCarthy and House Republicans filed a lawsuit to stop the House of Representatives from allowing remote <a href="/wiki/Proxy_voting" title="Proxy voting">proxy voting</a> by representatives, a measure that had been introduced under Speaker <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> to prevent the virus's spread in the Capitol.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JudgeDismisses_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JudgeDismisses-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy and the other plaintiffs claimed that a quorum of members had to be physically present in the chamber to conduct business; Pelosi defended the rule as a critical public health measure and pointed to the Constitution authorizing each chamber of Congress to establish its own procedural rules.<sup id="cite_ref-JudgeDismisses_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JudgeDismisses-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In August 2020, a federal judge dismissed McCarthy's lawsuit against Pelosi, ruling that the House has "absolute immunity from civil suit" under the Constitution's <a href="/wiki/Speech_or_Debate_Clause" title="Speech or Debate Clause">Speech or Debate Clause</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-JudgeDismisses_91-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JudgeDismisses-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MedalCeremony_1_011520_(44_of_69)_(49396285057).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg/220px-MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg/330px-MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg/440px-MedalCeremony_1_011520_%2844_of_69%29_%2849396285057%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10667" data-file-height="6000" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy with other congressional leaders in January 2020</figcaption></figure><p>In November 2020, in the aftermath of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a>, McCarthy insisted on <a href="/wiki/The_Ingraham_Angle" title="The Ingraham Angle">Laura Ingraham's television show</a> that "President Trump won this election"—echoing Trump's own claim—even as vote-counting was ongoing in several states and no winner had yet been declared.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy insinuated that large-scale voter fraud would lead Trump to lose, saying "Everyone who is listening: Do not be quiet. Do not be silent about this. We cannot allow this to happen before our very eyes."<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2020, McCarthy was one of 126 Republican members of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> to sign an <a href="/wiki/Amicus_brief" class="mw-redirect" title="Amicus brief">amicus brief</a> in support of <i><a href="/wiki/Texas_v._Pennsylvania" title="Texas v. Pennsylvania">Texas v. Pennsylvania</a></i>, a lawsuit filed at the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">United States Supreme Court</a> contesting the results of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">House Speaker</a> <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> issued a statement that called signing the amicus brief an act of "election subversion".<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Supreme Court declined to hear the case, on the basis that Texas lacked <a href="/wiki/Standing_(law)" title="Standing (law)">standing</a> under <a href="/wiki/Article_Three_of_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Article Three of the United States Constitution">Article III of the Constitution</a> to challenge the results of an election held by another state.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2021, McCarthy denied he had supported Trump's false claims of election fraud, despite having supported <i>Texas v. Pennsylvania</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 6, 2021, hours after the <a href="/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2021 United States Capitol attack">attack on the Capitol</a>, McCarthy voted against certifying Biden's win in two states.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Cook_Political_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="Cook Political Report">Cook Political Report</a> House editor <a href="/wiki/Dave_Wasserman" title="Dave Wasserman">Dave Wasserman</a> later reported that McCarthy had told him on several occasions before this vote that he knew Biden had won.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He later denied that this was a vote to overturn the election, because Biden would still have won without those two states. McCarthy finally recognized Biden as president-elect on January 8, more than two months after the election.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During a January 8 conference call with other House Republican leaders, McCarthy said that Trump's conduct during the Capitol riot was "atrocious and totally wrong" and that he was "inciting people" to attack the Capitol, and briefly inquired about invoking the <a href="/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution">25th Amendment</a> to remove him from office. On a January 10 conference call with Republican leaders, McCarthy said he would ask Trump to resign rather than go through a long impeachment battle, adding, "I've had it with this guy." During the same call he also expressed a wish that tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter would strip some Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts. But after weak House Republican support for <a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second impeachment of Donald Trump">Trump's second impeachment</a>, fearing retribution from Trump and his allies, McCarthy backed off from this stance.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A week after the attack, McCarthy delivered a speech in which he held Trump partially responsible for the riots. He emphasized that Trump failed to intervene after the initial TV footage, showing the demonstration evolving in a violent assault.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He later said that he did not believe Trump had provoked the mob. On January 28, McCarthy paid Trump a visit at his <a href="/wiki/Mar-a-Lago" title="Mar-a-Lago">Mar-a-Lago</a> residence. Officially the topic was said to be "regaining the lost votes in the midterm elections of 2022", but it was widely reported as an attempt to mend fences with Trump and lessen tensions in the Republican Party.<sup id="cite_ref-Haberman20210127_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haberman20210127-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TampaBayTimes20210128_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TampaBayTimes20210128-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Second_impeachment_trial_of_Donald_Trump" title="Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump">second impeachment trial of Donald Trump</a>, Congresswoman <a href="/wiki/Jaime_Herrera_Beutler" title="Jaime Herrera Beutler">Jaime Herrera Beutler</a> said that Trump said to McCarthy during the ongoing attack on the Capitol by rioters: "Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are."<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> She was not called as a witness but her statement was included in the impeachment documents. </p><p>In April 2021, before closing arguments in the <a href="/wiki/Derek_Chauvin_trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Derek Chauvin trial">Derek Chauvin trial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maxine_Waters" title="Maxine Waters">Maxine Waters</a> said, "I hope we're going to get a verdict that will say guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don't, we cannot go away" and need to get "more confrontational". After her comments, McCarthy said, "Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis just as she has incited it in the past. If Speaker Pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week."<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because of her stance on the Capitol riot, her vote to impeach Trump and vocal opposition to his stolen election narrative, in early 2021 pro-Trump <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus">Freedom Caucus</a> House members attempted to remove <a href="/wiki/Liz_Cheney" title="Liz Cheney">Liz Cheney</a> as chair of the <a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">House Republican Conference</a>, the third-ranking position in the Republican House leadership. The initial effort failed, but growing numbers of House Republicans supported her removal; McCarthy agreed to a party vote in May, resulting in Cheney's ouster. Hours after the vote, McCarthy said, "I don't think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election", but a CNN poll released days earlier found that 70% of Republicans believed the election was stolen.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In October 2021, McCarthy pressured Republican political consultants not to work with Cheney or else lose business with other Republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P20210512AS-0249_(51224727223).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg/220px-P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg/330px-P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg/440px-P20210512AS-0249_%2851224727223%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1066" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy, <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Chuck Schumer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> meet with President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> and Vice President <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a> in May 2021.</figcaption></figure> <p>On May 18, 2021, McCarthy announced that he opposed the bipartisan agreement in the House to form an independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy had asked Representative <a href="/wiki/John_Katko" title="John Katko">John Katko</a>, a member of his whip team, to negotiate with Democrats on the caucus's behalf about the commission. McCarthy specified to Katko what he and Senate Minority Leader <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> wanted, and got almost everything he asked for.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy also said that the scope of any investigation should include other events of political violence, which was possible with the terms negotiated. McCarthy sided with other Republicans who sought to downplay the matter and move on.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2021, after Pelosi announced the creation of a select committee to investigate the Capitol attack that would include five Republican members, McCarthy threatened to remove Republicans from committee assignments if they participated.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2021, the <a href="/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant" title="SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant">delta variant</a> of the coronavirus prompted the Attending Physician of the United States Congress to reimpose a mask requirement in the House chamber. McCarthy called this "a decision conjured up by liberal government officials who want to continue to live in a perpetual pandemic state", prompting Pelosi to respond to reporters, "he's such a moron."<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2021-07-30-WashPost_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021-07-30-WashPost-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On July 31, 2021, members of Tennessee's Republican congressional delegation gave McCarthy a large gavel with the words "Fire Pelosi" inscribed on it. McCarthy told them, "it will be hard not to hit her with it, but I will bang it down."<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2021, after the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack" title="United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack">House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack</a> asked telecommunications and social media companies to retain certain records, McCarthy said that if the companies "turn over private information" to the committee, they would be "in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States", and that a future Republican legislative majority would hold them "fully accountable". McCarthy did not specify which law the companies would break in this situation.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 18, 2021, and into the early morning of November 19, McCarthy gave a record-breaking 8.5-hour speech on the House floor using the "<a href="/wiki/Magic_minute" title="Magic minute">magic minute</a>", forcing a delay in the final vote on the <a href="/wiki/Build_Back_Better_Act" title="Build Back Better Act">Build Back Better Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 12, 2022, the January 6 Committee subpoenaed McCarthy and Republican representatives <a href="/wiki/Jim_Jordan" title="Jim Jordan">Jim Jordan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mo_Brooks" title="Mo Brooks">Mo Brooks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scott_Perry_(politician)" title="Scott Perry (politician)">Scott Perry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Andy_Biggs" title="Andy Biggs">Andy Biggs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December, the committee referred McCarthy, Jordan, Perry and Biggs to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States House Committee on Ethics">House Ethics Committee</a> for disobeying the subpoenas.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speaker_of_the_House">Speaker of the House</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Nomination">Nomination</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/January_2023_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg/220px-McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg/330px-McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg/440px-McCarthy_Holding_Gavel_After_Speaker_Election.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1925" data-file-height="1925" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy holding the gavel following the 15 ballots that led to his election as Speaker of the House</figcaption></figure> <p>As minority leader, McCarthy led Republicans in the <a href="/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections">2022 election cycle</a>. Many party officials and political pundits predicted Republicans would make large gains in the House. In the elections, Republicans gained a majority, continuing the decades-long trend of the incumbent president's party losing a House majority in their midterm elections. This also marked the first time since the <a href="/wiki/115th_United_States_Congress" title="115th United States Congress">115th Congress</a> that Republicans held a majority. But Republicans did not fulfill widespread predictions of large gains, as their majority was narrow. McCarthy won an internal Republican conference vote in early November, with 188 votes to <a href="/wiki/Andy_Biggs" title="Andy Biggs">Andy Biggs</a>'s 31, but some members of the conference continued to oppose his bid for speaker. </p><p>At the start of the <a href="/wiki/118th_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="118th Congress">118th Congress</a> on January 3, 2023, McCarthy failed to secure a majority of votes cast on the first ballot, with all Democrats and 19 Republicans opposing him. This marked the first time since the <a href="/wiki/1923_Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives_election" title="1923 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election">December 1923 speaker election</a> that the first ballot did not produce a speaker. McCarthy finally received a majority and became speaker on the 15th ballot on January 7, after making key concessions to some members of the right-wing <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus">Freedom Caucus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> including a rule to allow a single House member to introduce a vote to remove the speaker, as well as granting Freedom Caucus members three seats on the influential Rules Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Additionally, it was the longest multi-ballot speaker election since <a href="/wiki/December_1859_%E2%80%93_February_1860_U.S._speaker_election" class="mw-redirect" title="December 1859 – February 1860 U.S. speaker election">1859</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_010723_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_010723-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_010623_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_010623-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tenure">Tenure</h4></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P20230207AS-1831_(52680872226).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg/245px-P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="245" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg/368px-P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg/490px-P20230207AS-1831_%2852680872226%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Speaker McCarthy greets U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> before the <a href="/wiki/2023_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="2023 State of the Union Address">2023 State of the Union Address</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>During McCarthy's tenure as speaker, the U.S. Congress was extremely unproductive compared to preceding modern congresses. Very few bills were passed into law, for which analysts in large part faulted discord among the House's Republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2023, McCarthy released over 40,000 hours of security video of the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6 Capitol attack</a> to <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> host <a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson" title="Tucker Carlson">Tucker Carlson</a>, prompting criticism from colleagues such as <a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">House Minority Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Jeffries" title="Hakeem Jeffries">Hakeem Jeffries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Party_Leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Party Leaders of the United States Senate">Senate Majority Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Chuck Schumer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TheGuardian_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TheGuardian-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Days later, Carlson aired several minutes of the video during <a href="/wiki/Tucker_Carlson_Tonight" title="Tucker Carlson Tonight">his program</a> and asserted that government investigators had exaggerated the degree of criminality during the attack. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> prosecutors said that in one case Carlson's video clips were misleadingly edited to suggest that <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Chansley" title="Jacob Chansley">one prominent Capitol intruder</a> had been unjustly prosecuted, omitting video of him engaged in criminal activity.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg/220px-Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg/330px-Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg/440px-Kevin_McCarthy_met_with_Tsai_Ing-wen_at_the_Reagan_Library.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Speaker McCarthy meets with <a href="/wiki/President_of_Taiwan" class="mw-redirect" title="President of Taiwan">President of Taiwan</a> <a href="/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen" title="Tsai Ing-wen">Tsai Ing-wen</a>, April 5, 2023.</figcaption></figure> <p>In March 2023, McCarthy announced he had planned a meeting with the Taiwanese president <a href="/wiki/Tsai_Ing-wen" title="Tsai Ing-wen">Tsai Ing-wen</a>, in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBCTaiwan_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBCTaiwan-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He initially declined an invitation from Ukrainian president <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> to visit <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, saying he opposed giving "blank checks" to <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a> and did not need to visit Ukraine to know whether the money was necessary.<sup id="cite_ref-PoliticoUkraine_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PoliticoUkraine-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The planned meeting with Tsai was condemned by the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a>, which threatened to take strong action.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy and Tsai met on April 5 at the <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_Presidential_Library" title="Ronald Reagan Presidential Library">Ronald Reagan Presidential Library</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> where he denounced China's threats.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The meeting, which was described as a historic first,<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> triggered <a href="/wiki/2023_Chinese_military_exercises_around_Taiwan" title="2023 Chinese military exercises around Taiwan">a series of Chinese military exercises near Taiwan</a>, which the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army" title="People&#39;s Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a> described as three-day "combat readiness patrols", meant to warn to the Taiwanese. On April 8, approximately eight Chinese warships and 42 fighter jets were detected near Taiwan's coasts.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, McCarthy, Senate majority leader <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Schumer" title="Chuck Schumer">Chuck Schumer</a>, and Senate minority leader <a href="/wiki/Mitch_McConnell" title="Mitch McConnell">Mitch McConnell</a> invited South Korean president <a href="/wiki/Yoon_Suk_Yeol" title="Yoon Suk Yeol">Yoon Suk Yeol</a> to address a joint meeting of Congress, scheduled for April 27.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2023, amid <a href="/wiki/2023_United_States_debt-ceiling_crisis" title="2023 United States debt-ceiling crisis">a debt-ceiling crisis</a>, McCarthy worked closely with President Biden to resolve the issue.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Members of the <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus">Freedom Caucus</a> attempted to persuade McCarthy to make more robust demands in exchange for raising the debt ceiling, but with days until a potentially disastrous <a href="/wiki/Default_(finance)" title="Default (finance)">default</a>, McCarthy did not do so.<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He negotiated the <a href="/wiki/Fiscal_Responsibility_Act_of_2023" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023">Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023</a> that was introduced by Republican representative <a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">Patrick McHenry</a>, and it passed the House on May 31 and the Senate on June 1. Biden signed it into law on June 3, ending the crisis and preventing a default.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg/220px-Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg/330px-Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg/440px-Vice_President_Harris_and_Speaker_McCarthy_listened_to_Prime_Minister_Modi%27s_speech_at_the_US_Capitol_in_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy and Vice President <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a> behind Indian Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Narendra_Modi" title="Narendra Modi">Narendra Modi</a> as he addresses Congress, June 22, 2023</figcaption></figure> <p>McCarthy has urged Biden to withdraw the nomination of <a href="/wiki/Julie_Su" title="Julie Su">Julie Su</a> as <a href="/wiki/United_States_secretary_of_labor" class="mw-redirect" title="United States secretary of labor">United States secretary of labor</a>, arguing her controversial record would lead to "potential disastrous ramifications at the federal level".<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy has expressed support for <a href="/wiki/Proposed_expungements_of_the_impeachments_of_Donald_Trump" title="Proposed expungements of the impeachments of Donald Trump">a proposal to "expunge" both of President Trump's impeachments</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Amid <a href="/wiki/Comer_investigation_of_Biden_family" class="mw-redirect" title="Comer investigation of Biden family">allegations of corruption by President Joe Biden</a>, many Republicans called for his impeachment. On September 1, 2023, McCarthy said that he would not initiate an <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_in_the_United_States" title="Impeachment inquiry in the United States">impeachment inquiry</a> without a full House vote, though it appeared he did not have sufficient Republican support to pass such a measure.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 12, he announced that he was directing the Oversight, Judiciary, and Ways and Means committees to begin <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_inquiry_into_Joe_Biden" title="Impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden">an impeachment inquiry</a>, to be led by <a href="/wiki/James_Comer_(politician)" title="James Comer (politician)">James Comer</a>, chairman of the Oversight Committee. He did not say whether a full House vote might be held.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy asserted that, over his objections, former speaker <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> had changed the process when Democrats pursued the <a href="/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump" title="First impeachment of Donald Trump">first impeachment of Donald Trump</a> in 2019, so that he was following what she had done. In 2019, Democrats conducted a five-week investigation before holding a full House vote to approve an impeachment inquiry.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The impeachment allegations coincided with rising fears of a federal government shutdown, as McCarthy's concessions to Biden infuriated members of the Freedom Caucus who were calling for less spending. The Freedom Caucus's cause was echoed by various politicians outside the House, notably including Trump and Florida Governor <a href="/wiki/Ron_DeSantis" title="Ron DeSantis">Ron DeSantis</a>. Amid the Republican infighting and in a push to halt legislators' pay during shutdowns, Representative <a href="/wiki/Angie_Craig" title="Angie Craig">Angie Craig</a> introduced the <a href="/wiki/MCCARTHY_Shutdown_Act" title="MCCARTHY Shutdown Act">MCCARTHY (My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your) Shutdown Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Removal_as_House_Speaker">Removal as House Speaker</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Kevin_McCarthy_as_Speaker_of_the_House" title="Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House">Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_1" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/220px--Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="2946" data-mwtitle="Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It&#39;s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm/Speaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp8, vorbis&quot;" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&amp;title=File%3ASpeaker_Kevin_McCarthy_It%27s_been_an_honor_to_serve.webm&amp;lang=en&amp;trackformat=vtt&amp;origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></video></span><figcaption>McCarthy giving a press conference following his removal</figcaption></figure> <p>On September 29, 2023, McCarthy's bill to fund the federal government, including large spending cuts and strict border policies, failed to pass the House after 21 hard-right House Republicans joined all Democrats present in voting against it, criticizing the reforms proposed as insignificant and insufficient; if no funding bill had been passed, a government shutdown would have occurred on October 1.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Freking_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freking-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On September 30, McCarthy introduced a temporary funding bill without the large spending cuts, but also without Ukraine funding; this bill passed the House with 209 Democrats and 126 Republicans in favor; one Democrat and 90 Republicans voted against it.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The shutdown was prevented when the Senate passed the bill and President Biden signed it into law.<sup id="cite_ref-Freking_170-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freking-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy told the media, "Democrats tried to do everything they can not to let [the bill] pass".<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After funding the government with Democratic support, McCarthy said, "If somebody wants to remove me because I want to be the adult in the room, go ahead and try".<sup id="cite_ref-Freking_170-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Freking-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On October 3, Representative <a href="/wiki/Matt_Gaetz" title="Matt Gaetz">Matt Gaetz</a> filed a motion to vacate the speakership: Gaetz criticized McCarthy for working with Democrats to pass a spending bill which did not include <a href="/wiki/Fiscally_conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiscally conservative">fiscally conservative</a> reforms. Immediately thereafter, an attempt to remove the motion through a <a href="/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure)#Congress" title="Table (parliamentary procedure)">motion to table</a> was filed by Representative <a href="/wiki/Tom_Cole" title="Tom Cole">Tom Cole</a>, a McCarthy ally, but it was voted down by House Democrats and eleven Republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-NYTimesResults_173-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTimesResults-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The vote to vacate passed with 216 in favor and 210 opposed, removing McCarthy as speaker.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This was the first time in U.S. history that the House of Representatives had removed its speaker from office.<sup id="cite_ref-removedWSJ_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-removedWSJ-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Voting to remove McCarthy were all House Democrats and eight House Republicans: Gaetz, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Biggs" title="Andy Biggs">Andy Biggs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Buck" title="Ken Buck">Ken Buck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Burchett" title="Tim Burchett">Tim Burchett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eli_Crane" title="Eli Crane">Eli Crane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Good" title="Bob Good">Bob Good</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nancy_Mace" title="Nancy Mace">Nancy Mace</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Matt_Rosendale" title="Matt Rosendale">Matt Rosendale</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After the vote, McCarthy announced he would not seek the speakership again.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-speakership_and_resignation_from_Congress">Post-speakership and resignation from Congress</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_2" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm/220px--Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="158" data-mwtitle="Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; 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codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp9, opus&quot;" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm/Kevin_McCarthy_retirement_announcement.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp8, vorbis&quot;" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>McCarthy announcing his retirement</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png/220px-Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png/330px-Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png/440px-Kevin_McCarthy_speaking_to_VOA_at_2024_RNC_11.png 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="575" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy attending the <a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_National_Convention" title="2024 Republican National Convention">2024 Republican National Convention</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On December 6, 2023, McCarthy announced that he would resign from Congress on December 31.<sup id="cite_ref-retirement_2023_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retirement_2023-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On December 14, McCarthy gave his farewell speech to the House; speaking to reporters, he said that leaving the House at this point in his career was "not the timing I wanted". Republican members of California's congressional delegation, in addition to <a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">Patrick McHenry</a> and Democrat <a href="/wiki/Steny_Hoyer" title="Steny Hoyer">Steny Hoyer</a>, paid tribute to McCarthy on the House floor.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A few months later, when asked at a Georgetown event, McCarthy said, "I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker. It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old ... did he do it or not? I don't know." The conversation was interpreted as questioning Gaetz's motives for kickstarting his ouster. McCarthy did not provide any proof or source to substantiate his statement.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his ouster, he continues to be a major fundraiser, assisting Speaker Mike Johnson with campaign finance via his SuperPAC, the Congressional Leadership Fund.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg/220px-Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="285" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg/330px-Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg/440px-Kevin_McCarthy_at_the_110th_Congress_swearing-in.jpg 2x" data-file-width="442" data-file-height="573" /></a><figcaption>McCarthy and his wife Judy with their children during the <a href="/wiki/110th_United_States_Congress" title="110th United States Congress">110th Congressional</a> swearing in</figcaption></figure> <p>McCarthy and his wife, Judy, have two children. They are lifelong residents of Bakersfield.<sup id="cite_ref-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy_40-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USHouseBioKevinMcCarthy-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He and his family are Baptists and members of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention" title="Southern Baptist Convention">Southern Baptist Convention</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2015, McCarthy was accused of having an affair with Representative <a href="/wiki/Renee_Ellmers" title="Renee Ellmers">Renee Ellmers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Yglesias_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yglesias-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He had unexpectedly dropped out of the race for Speaker of the House shortly before the allegations surfaced.<sup id="cite_ref-usnews_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usnews-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Days earlier, Representative <a href="/wiki/Walter_B._Jones_Jr." title="Walter B. Jones Jr.">Walter B. Jones Jr.</a> had sent Republican Conference chair <a href="/wiki/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers" title="Cathy McMorris Rodgers">Cathy McMorris Rodgers</a> a letter stating that any candidates for a leadership position with "misdeeds" should withdraw from the race.<sup id="cite_ref-McClatchy_DC_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McClatchy_DC-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Both McCarthy and Ellmers denied the allegation.<sup id="cite_ref-Yglesias_185-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Yglesias-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Political_positions_of_Kevin_McCarthy" title="Political positions of Kevin McCarthy">Political positions of Kevin McCarthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Kevin_McCarthy" title="Electoral history of Kevin McCarthy">Electoral history of Kevin McCarthy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A multi-ballot election lasted for 4 days, with McCarthy assuming office on January 7. <a href="/wiki/Clerk_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Clerk of the United States House of Representatives">House Clerk</a> <a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Johnson" title="Cheryl Johnson">Cheryl Johnson</a> served as the acting presiding officer pursuant to the previous rules of the House.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Following <a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Kevin_McCarthy_as_Speaker_of_the_House" title="Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House">McCarthy's removal</a> as speaker on October 3, 2023, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_McHenry" title="Patrick McHenry">Patrick McHenry</a> acted as <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#Speaker_pro_tempore" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives">speaker pro tempore</a> until Johnson's election as speaker on October 25, 2023.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Theodore_M._Pomeroy" title="Theodore M. Pomeroy">Theodore M. Pomeroy</a> (one day) and <a href="/wiki/Michael_C._Kerr" title="Michael C. Kerr">Michael C. Kerr</a> (258 days) served shorter terms than McCarthy.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/peter-roskam-steve-scalise-house-whip-race-108057.html">"Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise vault into GOP leadership"</a>. <i>Politico</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141228111929/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/peter-roskam-steve-scalise-house-whip-race-108057.html">Archived</a> from the original on December 28, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/kevin-mccarthy-staff-neil-bradley/?dcz=">the original</a> on June 4, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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His response: "Maybe."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)" title="Tweet (social media)">Tweet</a>) &#8211; via <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=A+few+weeks+after+the+election%2C+House+Republican+Leader+Kevin+McCarthy+acknowledged+Trump%27s+clear+loss+to+me+and+I+asked+him+if+the+president%27s+refusal+to+concede+would+lead+the+country+down+a+dangerous+road.+His+response%3A+%22Maybe.%22&amp;rft.date=2021-01-06&amp;rft.aulast=Wasserman&amp;rft.aufirst=Dave&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FRedistrict%2Fstatus%2F1346960142089248768&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKevin+McCarthy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWasserman2021" class="citation web cs1">Wasserman, Dave [@Redistrict] (January 7, 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://x.com/Redistrict/status/1347214766079664136">"At the end of the day, House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy voted to object to both AZ and PA's electors after acknowledging multiple times to me there was no doubt as to Biden's victory"</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tweet_(social_media)" title="Tweet (social media)">Tweet</a>) &#8211; via <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=At+the+end+of+the+day%2C+House+GOP+Leader+Kevin+McCarthy+voted+to+object+to+both+AZ+and+PA%27s+electors+after+acknowledging+multiple+times+to+me+there+was+no+doubt+as+to+Biden%27s+victory.&amp;rft.date=2021-01-07&amp;rft.aulast=Wasserman&amp;rft.aufirst=Dave&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FRedistrict%2Fstatus%2F1347214766079664136&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKevin+McCarthy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRieger2021" class="citation news cs1">Rieger, JM (January 25, 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/25/after-objecting-election-results-kevin-mccarthy-says-all-americans-bear-responsibility-deadly-capitol-riot/">"After objecting to the election results, Kevin McCarthy says all Americans bear responsibility for the deadly Capitol riot"</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210224135228/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/25/after-objecting-election-results-kevin-mccarthy-says-all-americans-bear-responsibility-deadly-capitol-riot/">Archived</a> from the original on February 24, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_22" title="2006 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_22" title="2008 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_22" title="2010 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_23" title="2012 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_23" title="2014 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_23" title="2016 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_23" title="2018 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_23" title="2020 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_California#District_20" title="2022 United States House of Representatives elections in California">2022</a></li></ul> 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Taylor (politician)">Taylor</a>&#160;(1820–1821)</li> <li><span style="color:#008000;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Philip_P._Barbour" title="Philip P. Barbour">Barbour</a>&#160;(1821–1823)</li> <li><span style="color:#008000;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Clay</a>&#160;(1823–1825)</li> <li><span style="color:#FFE6B0;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/John_W._Taylor_(politician)" title="John W. Taylor (politician)">Taylor</a>&#160;(1825–1827)</li> <li><span style="color:#DDEEFF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Andrew_Stevenson" title="Andrew Stevenson">Stevenson</a>&#160;(1827–1834)</li> <li><span style="color:#DDEEFF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/John_Bell_(Tennessee_politician)" title="John Bell (Tennessee politician)">Bell</a>&#160;(1834–1835)</li> <li><span style="color:#DDEEFF;">▌</span><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/James_K._Polk" title="James K. Polk">Polk</a>&#160;(1835–1839)</li> <li><span style="color:#F0C862;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Robert_M._T._Hunter" title="Robert M. T. 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Banks">Banks</a>&#160;(1856–1857)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/James_Lawrence_Orr" title="James Lawrence Orr">Orr</a>&#160;(1857–1859)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/William_Pennington" title="William Pennington">Pennington</a>&#160;(1860–1861)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Galusha_A._Grow" title="Galusha A. Grow">Grow</a>&#160;(1861–1863)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax" title="Schuyler Colfax">Colfax</a>&#160;(1863–1869)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Theodore_M._Pomeroy" title="Theodore M. Pomeroy">Pomeroy</a>&#160;(1869)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">Blaine</a>&#160;(1869–1875)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Michael_C._Kerr" title="Michael C. Kerr">Kerr</a>&#160;(1875–1876)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Samuel_J._Randall" title="Samuel J. Randall">Randall</a>&#160;(1876–1881)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/J._Warren_Keifer" title="J. Warren Keifer">Keifer</a>&#160;(1881–1883)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span>&#160;<a href="/wiki/John_G._Carlisle" title="John G. 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1856_Republican_National_Convention" title="1856 Republican National Convention">1856 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont" title="John C. Frémont">Frémont</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_L._Dayton" title="William L. Dayton">Dayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1860_Republican_National_Convention" title="1860 Republican National Convention">1860 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a>/<a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Hamlin" title="Hannibal Hamlin">Hamlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1864_National_Union_National_Convention" title="1864 National Union National Convention">1864 (Baltimore)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a>/<a href="/wiki/Andrew_Johnson" title="Andrew Johnson">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1868_Republican_National_Convention" title="1868 Republican National Convention">1868 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a>/<a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax" title="Schuyler Colfax">Colfax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1872_Republican_National_Convention" title="1872 Republican National Convention">1872 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_Wilson" title="Henry Wilson">Wilson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1876_Republican_National_Convention" title="1876 Republican National Convention">1876 (Cincinnati)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Rutherford B. Hayes">Hayes</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_A._Wheeler" title="William A. Wheeler">Wheeler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1880_Republican_National_Convention" title="1880 Republican National Convention">1880 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">Garfield</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur" title="Chester A. Arthur">Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1884_Republican_National_Convention" title="1884 Republican National Convention">1884 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">Blaine</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_A._Logan" title="John A. Logan">Logan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1888_Republican_National_Convention" title="1888 Republican National Convention">1888 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a>/<a href="/wiki/Levi_P._Morton" title="Levi P. Morton">Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1892_Republican_National_Convention" title="1892 Republican National Convention">1892 (Minneapolis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Harrison" title="Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a>/<a href="/wiki/Whitelaw_Reid" title="Whitelaw Reid">Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1896_Republican_National_Convention" title="1896 Republican National Convention">1896 (Saint Louis)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">McKinley</a>/<a href="/wiki/Garret_Hobart" title="Garret Hobart">Hobart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1900_Republican_National_Convention" title="1900 Republican National Convention">1900 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">McKinley</a>/<a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1904_Republican_National_Convention" title="1904 Republican National Convention">1904 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Fairbanks" title="Charles W. Fairbanks">Fairbanks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1908_Republican_National_Convention" title="1908 Republican National Convention">1908 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft</a>/<a href="/wiki/James_S._Sherman" title="James S. Sherman">Sherman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1912_Republican_National_Convention" title="1912 Republican National Convention">1912 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">Taft</a>/<a href="/wiki/James_S._Sherman" title="James S. Sherman">Sherman</a>/<a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler" title="Nicholas Murray Butler">Butler</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1912_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1912 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1916_Republican_National_Convention" title="1916 Republican National Convention">1916 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Evans_Hughes" title="Charles Evans Hughes">Hughes</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Fairbanks" title="Charles W. Fairbanks">Fairbanks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1916_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1916 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1920_Republican_National_Convention" title="1920 Republican National Convention">1920 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Harding</a>/<a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1920_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1920 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1924_Republican_National_Convention" title="1924 Republican National Convention">1924 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge" title="Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_G._Dawes" title="Charles G. Dawes">Dawes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1924_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1924 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1928_Republican_National_Convention" title="1928 Republican National Convention">1928 (Kansas City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Curtis" title="Charles Curtis">Curtis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1928_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1928 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1932_Republican_National_Convention" title="1932 Republican National Convention">1932 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_Curtis" title="Charles Curtis">Curtis</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1932_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1932 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1936_Republican_National_Convention" title="1936 Republican National Convention">1936 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alf_Landon" title="Alf Landon">Landon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frank_Knox" title="Frank Knox">Knox</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1936_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1936 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1940_Republican_National_Convention" title="1940 Republican National Convention">1940 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Wendell_Willkie" title="Wendell Willkie">Willkie</a>/<a href="/wiki/Charles_L._McNary" title="Charles L. McNary">McNary</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1940_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1940 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1944_Republican_National_Convention" title="1944 Republican National Convention">1944 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Dewey</a>/<a href="/wiki/John_W._Bricker" title="John W. Bricker">Bricker</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1944_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1944 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Republican_National_Convention" title="1948 Republican National Convention">1948 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Dewey</a>/<a href="/wiki/Earl_Warren" title="Earl Warren">Warren</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1948_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1948 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_National_Convention" title="1952 Republican National Convention">1952 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1952_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1952 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_National_Convention" title="1956 Republican National Convention">1956 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a>/<a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1956_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1956 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_National_Convention" title="1960 Republican National Convention">1960 (Chicago)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr." title="Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.">Lodge</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1960 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_National_Convention" title="1964 Republican National Convention">1964 (San Francisco)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Goldwater</a>/<a href="/wiki/William_E._Miller" title="William E. Miller">Miller</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1964_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1964 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_National_Convention" title="1968 Republican National Convention">1968 (Miami Beach)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1968 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_National_Convention" title="1972 Republican National Convention">1972 (Miami Beach)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Nixon</a>/<a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1972_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1972 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention" title="1976 Republican National Convention">1976 (Kansas City)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Ford</a>/<a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1976_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1976 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_Republican_National_Convention" title="1980 Republican National Convention">1980 (Detroit)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1980_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1980 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_Republican_National_Convention" title="1984 Republican National Convention">1984 (Dallas)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a>/<a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1984_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1984 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_Republican_National_Convention" title="1988 Republican National Convention">1988 (New Orleans)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Quayle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1988_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1988 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1992_Republican_National_Convention" title="1992 Republican National Convention">1992 (Houston)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dan_Quayle" title="Dan Quayle">Quayle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1992_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1992 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1996_Republican_National_Convention" title="1996 Republican National Convention">1996 (San Diego)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a>/<a href="/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp">Kemp</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1996_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="1996 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2000_Republican_National_Convention" title="2000 Republican National Convention">2000 (Philadelphia)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2000_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2000 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_Republican_National_Convention" title="2004 Republican National Convention">2004 (New York)</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a>/<a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Cheney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2004_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2004 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Republican_National_Convention" title="2008 Republican National Convention">2008 (St. Paul)</a>: <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">McCain</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Palin</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2008 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Republican_National_Convention" title="2012 Republican National Convention">2012 (Tampa)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Romney</a>/<a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2012_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2012 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Republican_National_Convention" title="2016 Republican National Convention">2016 (Cleveland)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2016 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_Republican_National_Convention" title="2020 Republican National Convention">2020 (Charlotte/other locations)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2020 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_National_Convention" title="2024 Republican National Convention">2024 (Milwaukee)</a>: <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>/<a href="/wiki/JD_Vance" title="JD Vance">Vance</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_Party_presidential_primaries" title="2024 Republican Party presidential primaries">primaries</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2028_Republican_National_Convention" title="2028 Republican National Convention">2028 (Houston)</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">Presidential</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Administration_(government)" title="Administration (government)">administrations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Abraham_Lincoln" title="Presidency of Abraham Lincoln">Lincoln</a> (1861–1865)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Andrew_Johnson" title="Presidency of Andrew Johnson">Johnson</a> (1865–1868)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Ulysses_S._Grant" title="Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant">Grant</a> (1869–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Rutherford_B._Hayes" title="Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes">Hayes</a> (1877–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Garfield" title="James A. Garfield">Garfield</a> (1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Chester_A._Arthur" title="Presidency of Chester A. Arthur">Arthur</a> (1881–1885)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Benjamin_Harrison" title="Presidency of Benjamin Harrison">Harrison</a> (1889–1893)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_McKinley" title="Presidency of William McKinley">McKinley</a> (1897–1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt">Roosevelt</a> (1901–1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_William_Howard_Taft" title="Presidency of William Howard Taft">Taft</a> (1909–1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Warren_G._Harding" title="Presidency of Warren G. Harding">Harding</a> (1921–1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Calvin_Coolidge" title="Presidency of Calvin Coolidge">Coolidge</a> (1923–1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Herbert_Hoover" title="Presidency of Herbert Hoover">Hoover</a> (1929–1933)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower">Eisenhower</a> (1953–1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon" title="Presidency of Richard Nixon">Nixon</a> (1969–1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Gerald_Ford" title="Presidency of Gerald Ford">Ford</a> (1974–1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Presidency of Ronald Reagan">Reagan</a> (1981–1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_H._W._Bush" title="Presidency of George H. W. Bush">G. H. W. Bush</a> (1989–1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">G. W. Bush</a> (2001–2009)</li> <li>Trump (<a href="/wiki/First_presidency_of_Donald_Trump" title="First presidency of Donald Trump">2017–2021</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Party leaders of the United States House of Representatives">U.S. House<br />leaders</a>,<br /><a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of speakers of the United States House of Representatives">Speakers</a>,<br />and<br /><a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">Conference<br />chairs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Pennington" title="William Pennington">Pennington</a> (1860–1861)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galusha_A._Grow" title="Galusha A. Grow">Grow</a> (1861–1863)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax" title="Schuyler Colfax">Colfax</a> (1863–1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_M._Pomeroy" title="Theodore M. Pomeroy">Pomeroy</a> (1869)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_G._Blaine" title="James G. Blaine">Blaine</a> (1869–1875)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_W._McCrary" title="George W. McCrary">McCrary</a> (1875–1877)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugene_Hale" title="Eugene Hale">Hale</a> (1877–1879)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_P._Frye" title="William P. Frye">Frye</a> (1879–1881)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Warren_Keifer" title="J. Warren Keifer">Keifer</a> (1881–1883)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon" title="Joseph Gurney Cannon">Cannon</a> (1883–1889)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brackett_Reed" title="Thomas Brackett Reed">Reed</a> (1889–1891)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_J._Henderson_(politician)" title="Thomas J. Henderson (politician)">T. J. Henderson</a> (1891–1895)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Brackett_Reed" title="Thomas Brackett Reed">Reed</a> (1895–1899)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_B._Henderson" title="David B. Henderson">D. B. Henderson</a> (1899–1903)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Gurney_Cannon" title="Joseph Gurney Cannon">Cannon</a> (1903–1911)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Robert_Mann_(Illinois_politician)" title="James Robert Mann (Illinois politician)">Mann</a> (1911–1919)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_H._Gillett" title="Frederick H. Gillett">Gillett</a> (1919–1925)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Longworth" title="Nicholas Longworth">Longworth</a> (1925–1931)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Snell" title="Bertrand Snell">Snell</a> (1931–1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Martin_Jr." title="Joseph W. Martin Jr.">Martin</a> (1939–1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Halleck" title="Charles A. Halleck">Halleck</a> (1959–1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Ford</a> (1965–1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Rhodes" title="John Jacob Rhodes">Rhodes</a> (1973–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_H._Michel" title="Robert H. Michel">Michel</a> (1981–1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Gingrich</a> (1995–1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert">Hastert</a> (1999–2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Boehner" title="John Boehner">Boehner</a> (2007–2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Ryan" title="Paul Ryan">Ryan</a> (2015–2019)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">McCarthy</a> (2019–2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Johnson</a> (2023–)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">RNC</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Chairs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_D._Morgan" title="Edwin D. Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Jarvis_Raymond" title="Henry Jarvis Raymond">Raymond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Lawrence_Ward" title="Marcus Lawrence Ward">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Claflin" title="William Claflin">Claflin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_D._Morgan" title="Edwin D. Morgan">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zachariah_Chandler" title="Zachariah Chandler">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Donald_Cameron" title="J. Donald Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_Jewell" title="Marshall Jewell">Jewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_M._Sabin" title="Dwight M. Sabin">Sabin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin_Jones_(industrialist)" title="Benjamin Franklin Jones (industrialist)">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Quay" title="Matthew Quay">Quay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_S._Clarkson" title="James S. Clarkson">Clarkson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_James_Campbell" title="William James Campbell">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_H._Carter" title="Thomas H. Carter">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Hanna" title="Mark Hanna">Hanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay_Payne" title="Henry Clay Payne">Payne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_B._Cortelyou" title="George B. Cortelyou">Cortelyou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._New" title="Harry S. New">New</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Harris_Hitchcock" title="Frank Harris Hitchcock">Hitchcock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Fremont_Hill" title="John Fremont Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Rosewater" title="Victor Rosewater">Rosewater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_D._Hilles" title="Charles D. Hilles">Hilles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Russell_Willcox" title="William Russell Willcox">Wilcox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_H._Hays" title="Will H. Hays">Hays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_T._Adams" title="John T. Adams">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_M._Butler" title="William M. Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Work" title="Hubert Work">Work</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudius_H._Huston" title="Claudius H. Huston">Huston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simeon_D._Fess" title="Simeon D. Fess">Fess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Sanders" title="Everett Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher" title="Henry P. Fletcher">Fletcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hamilton_(Kansas_politician)" title="John Hamilton (Kansas politician)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_W._Martin_Jr." title="Joseph W. Martin Jr.">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailey_Walsh" title="Bailey Walsh">Walsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_E._Spangler" title="Harrison E. Spangler">Spangler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Brownell_Jr." title="Herbert Brownell Jr.">Brownell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._Carroll_Reece" title="B. Carroll Reece">Reece</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Scott" title="Hugh Scott">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Gabrielson" title="Guy Gabrielson">Gabrielson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Summerfield" title="Arthur Summerfield">Summerfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Wesley_Roberts" title="C. Wesley Roberts">Roberts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_W._Hall" title="Leonard W. Hall">Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meade_Alcorn" title="Meade Alcorn">Alcorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thruston_Ballard_Morton" title="Thruston Ballard Morton">T. Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Miller" title="William E. Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Burch" title="Dean Burch">Burch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_C._Bliss" title="Ray C. Bliss">Bliss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogers_Morton" title="Rogers Morton">R. Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Dole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">Bush</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Louise_Smith_(politician)" title="Mary Louise Smith (politician)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Brock" title="Bill Brock">Brock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Richards_(Utah_politician)" title="Richard Richards (Utah politician)">Richards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Laxalt" title="Paul Laxalt">Laxalt</a>/<a href="/wiki/Frank_Fahrenkopf" title="Frank Fahrenkopf">Fahrenkopf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Fahrenkopf" title="Frank Fahrenkopf">Fahrenkopf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Atwater" title="Lee Atwater">Atwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_Yeutter" title="Clayton Yeutter">Yeutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bond_(political_executive)" title="Richard Bond (political executive)">Bond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haley_Barbour" title="Haley Barbour">Barbour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Nicholson_(Secretary_of_Veterans_Affairs)" title="Jim Nicholson (Secretary of Veterans Affairs)">Nicholson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gilmore" title="Jim Gilmore">Gilmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc_Racicot" title="Marc Racicot">Racicot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Gillespie" title="Ed Gillespie">Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Mehlman" title="Ken Mehlman">Mehlman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Mart%C3%ADnez" title="Mel Martínez">Martínez</a>/<a href="/wiki/Mike_Duncan" title="Mike Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Duncan" title="Mike Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Steele" title="Michael Steele">Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reince_Priebus" title="Reince Priebus">Priebus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronna_McDaniel" title="Ronna McDaniel">McDaniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Whatley" title="Michael Whatley">Whatley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Chair elections</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2009_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2009 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2011 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2013 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2015 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2017 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2019_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="2019 Republican National Committee chairmanship election (page does not exist)">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=2021_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="2021 Republican National Committee chairmanship election (page does not exist)">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" title="2023 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_Republican_National_Committee_chairmanship_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2024 Republican National Committee chairmanship election">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_parties_of_the_Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States)">Parties</a> by<br />state and<br />territory</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">State</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alabama_Republican_Party" title="Alabama Republican Party">Alabama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_Republican_Party" title="Alaska Republican Party">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arizona_Republican_Party" title="Arizona Republican Party">Arizona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Arkansas" title="Republican Party of Arkansas">Arkansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/California_Republican_Party" title="California Republican Party">California</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorado_Republican_Party" title="Colorado Republican Party">Colorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Republican_Party" title="Connecticut Republican Party">Connecticut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_State_Committee_of_Delaware" title="Republican State Committee of Delaware">Delaware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Florida" title="Republican Party of Florida">Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_Republican_Party" title="Georgia Republican Party">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaii_Republican_Party" title="Hawaii Republican Party">Hawaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Idaho_Republican_Party" title="Idaho Republican Party">Idaho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_Republican_Party" title="Illinois Republican Party">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Republican_Party" title="Indiana Republican Party">Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Iowa" title="Republican Party of Iowa">Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_Republican_Party" title="Kansas Republican Party">Kansas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Kentucky" title="Republican Party of Kentucky">Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Louisiana" title="Republican Party of Louisiana">Louisiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maine_Republican_Party" title="Maine Republican Party">Maine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_Republican_Party" title="Maryland Republican Party">Maryland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Republican_Party" title="Massachusetts Republican Party">Massachusetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michigan_Republican_Party" title="Michigan Republican Party">Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Minnesota" title="Republican Party of Minnesota">Minnesota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Republican_Party" title="Mississippi Republican Party">Mississippi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_Republican_Party" title="Missouri Republican Party">Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montana_Republican_Party" title="Montana Republican Party">Montana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebraska_Republican_Party" title="Nebraska Republican Party">Nebraska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nevada_Republican_Party" title="Nevada Republican Party">Nevada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_Republican_State_Committee" title="New Hampshire Republican State Committee">New Hampshire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Republican_Party" title="New Jersey Republican Party">New Jersey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_New_Mexico" title="Republican Party of New Mexico">New Mexico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_Republican_State_Committee" title="New York Republican State Committee">New York</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_Republican_Party" title="North Carolina Republican Party">North Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota_Republican_Party" title="North Dakota Republican Party">North Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohio_Republican_Party" title="Ohio Republican Party">Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Republican_Party" title="Oklahoma Republican Party">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon_Republican_Party" title="Oregon Republican Party">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Republican_Party" title="Pennsylvania Republican Party">Pennsylvania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_Republican_Party" title="Rhode Island Republican Party">Rhode Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_Republican_Party" title="South Carolina Republican Party">South Carolina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_Republican_Party" title="South Dakota Republican Party">South Dakota</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Republican_Party" title="Tennessee Republican Party">Tennessee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Texas" title="Republican Party of Texas">Texas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utah_Republican_Party" title="Utah Republican Party">Utah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermont_Republican_Party" title="Vermont Republican Party">Vermont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Virginia" title="Republican Party of Virginia">Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Republican_Party" title="Washington State Republican Party">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia_Republican_Party" title="West Virginia Republican Party">West Virginia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Wisconsin" title="Republican Party of Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyoming_Republican_Party" title="Wyoming Republican Party">Wyoming</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Territory</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_American_Samoa" title="Republican Party of American Samoa">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Republican_Party" title="District of Columbia Republican Party">District of Columbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Guam" title="Republican Party of Guam">Guam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(Northern_Mariana_Islands)" title="Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands)">Northern Mariana Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Republican Party of Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_of_the_Virgin_Islands" title="Republican Party of the Virgin Islands">Virgin Islands</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_organizations" title="Republican Party (United States) organizations">Affiliated <br /> organizations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Congress</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">House Conference</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Digest" title="Legislative Digest">Legislative Digest</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steering_and_Policy_Committees_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Steering and Policy Committees of the United States House of Representatives">Steering and Policy Committees</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senate_Republican_Conference" title="Senate Republican Conference">Senate Conference</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Republican_Policy_Committee" title="United States Senate Republican Policy Committee">Policy Committee</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Factions_in_the_Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Factions in the Republican Party (United States)">Factions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_Caucus" title="Freedom Caucus">Freedom Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Problem_Solvers_Caucus" title="Problem Solvers Caucus">Problem Solvers Caucus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Governance_Group" title="Republican Governance Group">Republican Governance Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Study_Committee" title="Republican Study Committee">Republican Study Committee</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Fundraising<br />groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Congressional_Committee" title="National Republican Congressional Committee">National Republican Congressional Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Redistricting_Trust" title="National Republican Redistricting Trust">National Republican Redistricting Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Senatorial_Committee" title="National Republican Senatorial Committee">National Republican Senatorial Committee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Attorneys_General_Association" title="Republican Attorneys General Association">Republican Attorneys General Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Governors_Association" title="Republican Governors Association">Republican Governors Association</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#FFB6B6;;width:1%">Sectional<br />groups</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/College_Republicans" title="College Republicans">College Republicans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_chairpersons_of_the_College_Republicans" title="List of chairpersons of the College Republicans">Chairmen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congressional_Hispanic_Conference" title="Congressional Hispanic Conference">Congressional Hispanic Conference</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans" title="Log Cabin Republicans">Log Cabin Republicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_Jewish_Coalition" title="Republican Jewish Coalition">Republican Jewish Coalition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Hispanic_Assembly" title="Republican National Hispanic Assembly">Republican National Hispanic Assembly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republicans_Abroad" title="Republicans Abroad">Republicans Abroad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teen_Age_Republicans" title="Teen Age Republicans">Teen Age Republicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Young_Republicans" title="Young Republicans">Young Republicans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republicans_Overseas" 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Lee</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Gary_Miller_(politician)" title="Gary Miller (politician)">G. G. Miller</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Grace_Napolitano" title="Grace Napolitano">G. Napolitano</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thompson_(California_politician)" title="Mike Thompson (California politician)">M. Thompson</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Joe_Baca" title="Joe Baca">J. Baca</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Brian_Bilbray" title="Brian Bilbray">B. Bilbray</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Susan_Davis_(politician)" title="Susan Davis (politician)">S. Davis</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_Honda" title="Mike Honda">M. 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Boxer</a>&#160;(D)</li></ul> </div></div> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px" class="nowraplinks"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_from_California" title="List of United States representatives from California">House</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/George_Miller_(California_politician)" title="George Miller (California politician)">G. Miller</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Henry_Waxman" title="Henry Waxman">H. Waxman</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">N. Pelosi</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dana_Rohrabacher" title="Dana Rohrabacher">D. 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Farr</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Lofgren" title="Zoe Lofgren">Z. Lofgren</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez" title="Loretta Sanchez">L. Sanchez</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Brad_Sherman" title="Brad Sherman">B. Sherman</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Lois_Capps" title="Lois Capps">L. Capps</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Lee" title="Barbara Lee">B. Lee</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Gary_Miller_(politician)" title="Gary Miller (politician)">G. G. Miller</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Grace_Napolitano" title="Grace Napolitano">G. Napolitano</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_Thompson_(California_politician)" title="Mike Thompson (California politician)">M. Thompson</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Susan_Davis_(politician)" title="Susan Davis (politician)">S. Davis</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_Honda" title="Mike Honda">M. Honda</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Darrell_Issa" title="Darrell Issa">D. Issa</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Adam_Schiff" title="Adam Schiff">A. Schiff</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Devin_Nunes" title="Devin Nunes">D. Nunes</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Linda_S%C3%A1nchez" title="Linda Sánchez">L. 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McClintock</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Judy_Chu" title="Judy Chu">J. Chu</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/John_Garamendi" title="John Garamendi">J. Garamendi</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Karen_Bass" title="Karen Bass">K. Bass</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Denham" title="Jeff Denham">J. Denham</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Janice_Hahn" title="Janice Hahn">J. Hahn</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ami_Bera" title="Ami Bera">A. Bera</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Julia_Brownley" title="Julia Brownley">J. Brownley</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Tony_C%C3%A1rdenas" title="Tony Cárdenas">T. 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Becerra</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ken_Calvert" title="Ken Calvert">K. Calvert</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Anna_Eshoo" title="Anna Eshoo">A. Eshoo</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Lucille_Roybal-Allard" title="Lucille Roybal-Allard">L. Roybal-Allard</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Ed_Royce_(politician)" title="Ed Royce (politician)">E. Royce</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Sam_Farr" title="Sam Farr">S. Farr</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Zoe_Lofgren" title="Zoe Lofgren">Z. Lofgren</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Loretta_Sanchez" title="Loretta Sanchez">L. Sanchez</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Brad_Sherman" title="Brad Sherman">B. 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Gomez</a>&#160;(D)</li></ul> </div></div> </td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top; text-align:left"> <td style="text-align:right"><b><a href="/wiki/116th_United_States_Congress" title="116th United States Congress">116th</a></b> </td> <td style="padding-left:4px; white-space:nowrap"><div style="text-indent: -1.6em; margin-left: 1.6em;"><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_from_California" title="List of United States senators from California">Senate</a>:</b> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist inline"> <ul><li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein" title="Dianne Feinstein">D. Feinstein</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">K. 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Cook</i></a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Jared_Huffman" title="Jared Huffman">J. Huffman</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Doug_LaMalfa" title="Doug LaMalfa">D. LaMalfa</a>&#160;(R)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Alan_Lowenthal" title="Alan Lowenthal">A. Lowenthal</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Scott_Peters_(politician)" title="Scott Peters (politician)">S. Peters</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Raul_Ruiz_(politician)" title="Raul Ruiz (politician)">R. Ruiz</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Eric_Swalwell" title="Eric Swalwell">E. Swalwell</a>&#160;(D)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Takano" title="Mark Takano">M. 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