{"id":3222,"date":"2023-01-03T06:46:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:29:28","slug":"four-major-battles-facing-congress-in-2023a-house-leadership-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3222","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Four major battles facing Congress in 2023A House leadership fight<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. is headed for another era of divided government in the new year, as Republicans are poised to claim control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. Democrats will wield an expanded 51-seat Senate majority and control the presidency.<br \/>\nAs recent decades have shown, split control of Congress can get messy in an age of rising partisanship and political acrimony. And the dynamics on the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will set the backdrop for the 2024 presidential election.<br \/>\nHere are four battles that loom on Capitol Hill this year.<br \/>\nCan Kevin McCarthy win \u2014 or hold on to \u2014 the speaker\u2019s gavel?<br \/>\nMcCarthy, R-Calif., is facing a rebellion from\u00a0a band of conservative flame-throwers\u00a0vowing to deny him the speakership Tuesday when the House takes its first floor vote of the new Congress.<br \/>\nIf the rebels \u2014 led by Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and\u00a0Andy Biggs, R-Ariz. \u2014 make good on their word, they could send the speaker\u2019s vote to multiple ballots for the\u00a0first time in a century.<br \/>\nMcCarthy, who has led House Republicans in the minority for the past four years, won his party\u2019s nomination for speaker in a closed-door, secret-ballot vote in November. In fact, he\u00a0trounced\u00a0Biggs, 188-31, winning 85% of his GOP conference.<br \/>\nBut he&#8217;ll need 218 votes on the floor to secure the speakership.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/four-major-battles-facing-congress-2023-rcna61471\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. is headed for another era of divided government in the new year, as Republicans are poised to claim control of the House of Representatives on Jan. 3. Democrats will wield an expanded 51-seat Senate majority and control the presidency. As recent decades have shown, split control of Congress can get messy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2932,3131,1232,3363,1260,1268,2878,3032,3362],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-american-politics","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-debt-default","tag-fight","tag-government","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-speaker-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}