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If Johnson can't whip together support for his speakership, his time at the helm will have been remarkably short.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024

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

Mr. Fong succeeds Mr. McCarthy nearly five months after he resigned from Congress, following his ouster from the speakership.

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

Subsequently, however, he was induced by his friends to take the speakership of the legislative assembly, but he had never forgiven what he considered a slight at the hands of the prime minister in 1851.

From Lord Elgin by Bourinot, John George, Sir