Link: https://www.rt.com/news/569533-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-recap/
After a divisive voting process, Republicans choose the California lawmaker as the new speaker of the House of Representatives on Saturday | Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as speaker of the House of Representatives on Saturday morning, bringing a divisive week of infighting to a close and formally handing control of the House to the GOP. A split in the party turned what is normally an uneventful procedure into an historic standoff, with 20 hardline Republican lawmakers holding up the process in a combined bid to thwart McCarthy’s appointment and squeeze concessions out of a leader they view as too establishment-friendly.