Three speakers, a right-wing rebellion and Democratic upheaval: Inside the wild 118th Congress
The 118th Congress saw three men hold the speaker’s gavel and a president pressured to drop his re-election bid. Those power struggles will reverberate into the new Congress that begins Jan. 3.
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