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In January 2023, California Republican Kevin McCarthy went through 15 rounds of ballots before winning the speakership.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

In the same interview, Kinzinger elaborated on his rebuke of McCarthy, who left Congress shortly after being ousted from the speakership in October 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2024

But as she rose on the House floor to bring up her resolution declaring the speakership vacant, Ms. Greene appeared to be engaging in a mostly symbolic move.

From New York Times • May 8, 2024

“Congress is not the institution that I came to 19 years ago,” Higgins told Buffalo News in November, a month after a historic fight for the speakership.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

Schimmelpenninck was offered the speakership of the assembly for life, but he refused.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem