Kevin McCarthy, First Speaker of the US House of Representatives to be Ousted by Voting Kevin McCarthy, became the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives to be ousted by voting. Photo/NPR WASHIGTON - Speaker of the United States (US) House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, was ousted from office on Tuesday local time. This is a first in the long history of the US in the aftermath of extraordinary internal Republican Party infighting. McCarthy was ousted by right-wing Republicans throwing the US House of Representatives and the party's leadership into chaos. It was McCarthy's main rival, Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, who forced a vote on the “motion to vacate office.” He garnered more than a handful of conservative Republican critics of Trump and many Democrats who said thatMcCarthy is unfit to be a leader. Silence fell when the presiding officer closed the vote 216-210, saying that the position of Speaker of the DPR was hereby declared vacant, as
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