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Ashley Murray

Ashley Murray covers the nation’s capital as a senior reporter for States Newsroom. Her coverage areas include domestic policy and appropriations.

Virginia Mercury is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.

U.S. House paralyzed following second day of GOP failure to elect a speaker

By: Jennifer Shutt and Ashley Murray - January 4, 2023

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republicans’ stalemate over who should lead the chamber for the next two years dragged on Wednesday, with Kevin McCarthy failing to get the votes needed to become speaker on three more ballots. The chamber then adjourned until 8 p.m. Eastern to give the House GOP a chance to meet privately, though […]

Conservatives in U.S. House tank McCarthy bid to be speaker on multiple ballots

By: Jennifer Shutt and Ashley Murray - January 3, 2023

WASHINGTON — Republican control of the U.S. House got off to a rocky start Tuesday when the party was unable to decide who should become speaker amid a sharp disagreement within the party’s more conservative faction. California Rep. Kevin McCarthy didn’t clinch the backing of the 218 lawmakers he needed to become the head of the […]

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