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• McCarthy is defeated in 11th ballot for House speaker
• The House has voted to adjourn until Friday
• As Asian American voters ascend, a key battle in Orange County
• The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the U.S., but don’t expect the app to go away any time soon
• House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas fails, thwarted by Republican defections
• The House is now voting
• Hunter Biden appears for deposition, tells Republicans he did not involve his father in his business
• ‘Path to 218 runs through California’: State races pivotal in fight to control the House

Last year, he was stripped of a coveted committee chairmanship in what he said was retaliation by Speaker Anthony Rendon for casting a vote to secure more water for farmers. Though the district leans red, it’s not quite as crimson as its prior incarnation. But an influx of Bay Area refugees, driven east both by high home prices on the coast and the pandemic, have also brought their liberal politics with them. Still, the all-out push to get the bills through Congress is a reflection not only of politics, but realities on the ground in Ukraine.

McCarthy is defeated in 11th ballot for House speaker

He thanked by name House Speaker Mike Johnson, the Louisiana Republican who had been heavily lobbied by Ukraine’s supporters to bring the measure to a vote despite bitter opposition from his party’s far-right flank. Rep. Kevin McCarthy has now failed to win a majority of votes across 11 ballots over three days in his push to become House speaker. The Wednesday vote will probably aid Republicans in deep red districts in fending off challenges from far-right candidates by helping them prove their loyalty to Trump. The vote is also likely to aid Democratic challengers in competitive districts who are eager to win over moderates by tying GOP incumbents to the former president, who is unpopular among swing voters. The Constitution does not require the chamber to vote to launch an impeachment inquiry, legal experts told The Times.

The House has voted to adjourn until Friday

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Instead of a six-month deadline, TikTok would have roughly nine months, which could be extended by President Joe Biden by 90 days if he determines there’s been progress toward a sale. Also, the bill has now been inserted into a larger foreign aid package, which makes it much harder for lawmakers to oppose the measure. After days of contention over stopgap spending measures to avert a federal shutdown, Mr. McCarthy, with the support of more than 200 Democrats, managed on Saturday to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through mid-November.

As Asian American voters ascend, a key battle in Orange County

Get a code sent to your email to sign in, or sign in using a password. Starting on the Valley side of the Tehachapis, the district runs east of downtown Bakersfield before spanning northward all the way to Tulare, Hanford and Kettleman City. If the map looks familiar, it’s because it’s almost identical to the state Senate’s 16th District. The demographics are also similar — roughly 60% of the population here is Latino — though this district swings a bit more consistently Democratic. We are dedicated to keeping Californians informed on critical state news.

It was the first time in nearly 150 years a Cabinet secretary was impeached. The bill, released early Thursday, funds the departments of Homeland Security, State, Labor, Defense, Health and Human Services and various other agencies. Together with the $459 billion bill passed earlier this month, it fully funds the federal government to the tune of $1.659 trillion through September, after months of stopgap bills and negotiations. Soon after, the Senate voted to advance the bill procedurally, but all 100 senators will need to greenlight a final vote to skip other hurdles and pass the bill before the midnight deadline. If that doesn’t happen, the government would be forced into a partial shutdown on Saturday morning. President Joe Biden has called on Congress to pass it quickly and said he’ll sign the bill.

Get an email every time Congress votes on a bill or other matter. But Cathy Abernathy, a GOP strategist who has known McCarthy for decades, said he’s much happier and better suited to working in the campaign realm. The erstwhile speaker, who remains in touch with the ex-president, has been mentioned as a prospective recruit for a second Trump administration. McCarthy drew false equivalence between the griping of sour-grape Democrats who lost elections and the pernicious legal and tactical fights Trump and his allies waged to overturn Biden’s victory. McCarthy’s ouster from a job he long coveted was induced by far-right Republicans with the support of vengeance-minded Democrats. The reference was to allegations that Gaetz paid for sex, including relations with an underage girl, while in Congress.

His GOP opponents nominated two other Republicans – Rep. Kevin Hern and former President Donald Trump – to draw votes away from McCarthy. The House is now voting on whether or not to adjourn until noon ET on Friday. Rep. Kevin McCarthy and his allies had wanted to avoid another in-person conference-wide meeting after Tuesday's in-person meeting led to private tensions spilling out into public view. The Congressional Integrity Project recently launched a “seven-figure campaign” in California and other competitive districts targeting Republicans who backed formalizing the inquiry, according to Matthew Herdman, a spokesman for the nonprofit.

Trump is the only president to be impeached twice, this time on a charge of inciting the Capitol riot — the most bipartisan impeachment ever. Some Republicans in both chambers have expressed skepticism about the inquiry. So has the White House, which has been working in overdrive to bash the GOP for what administration officials have characterized as a baseless inquiry designed to appease Trump, who was twice impeached by House Democrats. Ahead of the floor vote, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, which is leading the inquiry, decried the investigation, calling it a partisan move that will waste taxpayer dollars to appease the far right.

Since then, Johnson has delayed sending the articles to the Senate for weeks while both chambers finished work on government funding legislation and took a two-week recess. Johnson had said he would send them to the Senate last week, but he delayed again after Senate Republicans said they wanted more time to prepare. More than a week after Election Day, election workers continue to tally votes. While CNN has projected Republicans will control the House, the results of some House races remain unknown. Voting laws that govern when and how ballots are counted differ in each state, allowing some states to finish relatively quickly, while others may not finish for several days.

But he’s also distanced himself from the divisive politics of former President Donald Trump, stressing that he is “not a Trumpster.” So far Patti sits at a clear disadvantage in such a Democratic-leaning district. Remember in 2020 when this ostensibly Democratic city ejected its nationally renowned mayor, Michael Tubbs, in favor of a Republican? Johnson’s hold on the speaker’s gavel has also grown more tenuous in recent days as three Republicans, led by Greene, supported a “motion to vacate” that can lead to a vote on removing the speaker. Egged on by far-right personalities, she is also being joined by a growing number of lawmakers including Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who is urging Johnson to voluntarily step aside, and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.). Reaching an endgame has been an excruciating lift for Johnson that has tested both his resolve and his support among Republicans, with a small but growing number now openly urging his removal from the speaker’s office. Yet congressional leaders cast the votes as a turning point in history — an urgent sacrifice as U.S. allies are beleaguered by wars and threats from continental Europe to the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific.

Top lawmakers on national security committees, who are privy to classified briefings, have grown gravely concerned about the situation in recent as Russia pummels Ukrainian forces beset by a shortage of troops and ammunition. Aid to Israel and the other allies also won approval by healthy margins, as did a measure to clamp down on the popular platform TikTok, signs of how unlikely coalitions formed to push the separate bills forward. The whole package will go to the Senate, where passage in the coming days is nearly assured.

After trashing the idea of a two-step strategy to fund the government, House Democrats signaled Monday that they are open to backing Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan, significantly lowering the threat of a painful shutdown at the end of the week. If the federal government shuts down Saturday, numerous publicly funded agencies will stop work and their employees won’t be paid, but Social Security checks will still go out. Nineteen members of the House Progressive Caucus who voted against further aid to Israel said Saturday that “we make ourselves complicit in this tragedy” if Congress continues to supply military assistance amid the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Still, Republicans have sought to portray formalizing the inquiry as a way to aid investigators. Four Republican lawmakers voted against a motion to adjourn the House until Thursday. If the House had not adjourned, members would have held another vote for speaker. It's not at all clear whether McCarthy and his allies will be able to lock down the votes -- and the longer the fight drags on, the more imperiled his speakership bid has become. But there were signs Wednesday that negotiations are progressing. "If I operated out of fear of a motion to vacate, I would never be able to do my job," Johnson told reporters this week.

Massie added he believes a motion to vacate — a rarely used procedural tool to remove the House speaker — will happen eventually. He remains close to the many lawmakers he recruited and helped get in office and keeps in touch with a nationwide donor network built during years as one of the GOP’s top congressional strategists. Many Ukrainians, whose days and nights are punctuated by air alerts that send people scurrying into basement bunkers or taking makeshift shelter behind a “second wall” at home, were eager to make the point that not only their own safety was at stake. Some U.S. lawmakers said coming to Ukraine’s aid now had helped avert sending a dangerous signal of U.S. weakness to Moscow. U.S. and Ukrainian officials said resupply efforts could take place relatively quickly, because of supply chains and logistical networks established early in the more than two-year-old conflict.