Election of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Biden on the anniversary of the “Capitol attack”: There is no place for political violence in the United States
Biden awarded presidential medals to 14 people during the commemoration of the second anniversary of the attack on the Capitol.
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15 rounds of voting to elect the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Biden congratulates McCarthy and calls on him to rule responsibly.
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Two years after the attack against the Capitol building, US President Joe Biden stressed that there is no place for political violence in the United States, while honoring police officers who, on the day of the attack on the Capitol in 2021, faced an angry crowd of supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump, while Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Biden added: “We must say clearly and with one voice, that there is no place in America to intimidate voters.
There is never any place for political violence. America is a country of law, not a country of chaos.” He saluted those who described them as the wonderful group of American citizens whom he honored, the day before yesterday evening, and awarded 14 people the Presidential Medal of Citizenship, which is among the highest American civilian honors. .
Biden honored security personnel whose faces have become familiar to Americans, due to the dizzying footage of the Capitol attack, or because of their remarkable testimonies before the Parliamentary Investigation Committee on those events. He also honored officials who were charged with monitoring voting operations in several different states, and resisted pressures and threats to try to force them to change the result of the ballot.
In addition, Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, yesterday, which ended a mechanism that witnessed severe tensions to its end in the ranks of the Republican Party, while President Joe Biden congratulated him, calling on him to rule responsibly.
After arduous negotiations, the group of deputies supporting former President Donald Trump, who were obstructing his election, acquiesced.
And thus ended a state of chaos not seen in Congress in more than 160 years.
Biden said in a statement: "I am ready to work with the Republicans when possible, and the voters have clearly indicated that they are waiting for the Republicans to be willing to work with me, and the time has come to govern responsibly."
And the state of suspense continued in Parliament after the failure of American representatives to elect a president for them in 14 rounds of voting, which caused real chaos in Parliament.
Immediately after his failure in the 14th election session, McCarthy, a representative from California, pointed the finger at a group of Republican deputies who support Trump and who are obstructing his election.
The pro-Trump deputies took advantage of the slim majority that the Republican Party achieved in the mid-term elections last November to impose their conditions, and they only acquiesced after obtaining basic guarantees, most notably a measure aimed specifically at facilitating the overthrow of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Kevin McCarthy was elected in the 15th round of voting, to succeed Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi in office.
High on the agenda for the next few months are negotiations on raising the US public debt ceiling, federal state financing, and possibly the release of additional financial packages for the war in Ukraine.
And with their new control of the House of Representatives, Republicans have also pledged to launch investigations into Joe Biden's handling of the pandemic and the withdrawal from Afghanistan, among other things.
"Now is the time to exercise control of the president's politics," said Kevin McCarthy of Parliament.
And after his party failed to control both houses of Congress, as has been the case since his inauguration in January 2021, despite obtaining a slim majority in the Senate, the US president can no longer hope to pass major legislation, but with the Senate in the hands of the Democrats, the Republicans cannot. Do that too.
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