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Kevin McCarthy
U.S. Representative — California · House Minority Leader, 2019–2023 · Speaker, 2023
House Minority Leader on January 6, 2021. Voted to sustain both objections to the counting of electoral votes that night. Told the House on January 13 that the president bore responsibility for the attack, traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet him fifteen days later, and walked the statement back that July. Became Speaker in January 2023, was removed in October by a vote of 216 to 210 — the first Speaker in the history of the House to be removed by the chamber — and resigned from Congress on December 31, 2023.
Documented conduct
May 12, 2022
Refused to account for it
Subpoenaed by the Select Committee for his communications with the president before, during and after the attack. He did not comply, and in December 2022 was referred to the House Ethics Committee for the refusal, along with three other members. The referral lapsed with that Congress on January 3 2023 and was never adjudicated.
Source: Select Committee press release, May 12 2022; CBS News, December 19 2022
Jan 7, 2021
Voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes
Voted Yea on the objection to counting Pennsylvania's electoral votes. The vote was taken after the Capitol had been cleared and the joint session resumed. It failed, 138 to 282.
Source: House Roll Call No. 11, Jan. 6-7, 2021
Jan 6, 2021
Voted to sustain the objection to Arizona's electoral votes
Voted Yea on the objection to counting Arizona's electoral votes, the first of the two objections pressed on January 6. It failed, 121 to 303.
Source: House Roll Call No. 10, Jan. 6, 2021
Dec 10, 2020
Signed the brief asking the Court to set aside four states' results
One of 126 House members who signed the amicus brief supporting Texas's suit against Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia. The Supreme Court dismissed the underlying petition the next day, seven to two. It was signed four weeks before the count.
Source: Texas v. Pennsylvania, No. 22O155 (U.S.), brief of 126 Representatives