The House of Representatives fell silent as Steve Womack, the Republican congressman from Arkansas, read the results of the historic vote: “The office of the Speaker of the House of the United States House of Representatives is hereby declared vacant.”
“Now what?” one unidentified lawmaker loudly replied.
It was a question that echoed across Washington on Tuesday evening, after the House took the unprecedented step of removing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House — plunging the Republican party into turmoil and grinding the legislative process on Capitol Hill to a halt.
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