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...Gaetz has been a thorn in McCarthy’s side since January, when he was arguably his chief tormentor, refusing to back the California congressman in his quest for the Speaker’s gavel....
...It was a question that echoed across Washington on Tuesday evening, after the House took the unprecedented step of removing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker — plunging the Republican party into turmoil and grinding...
...The other is Jim Jordan, an ultraloyal Ohio Trumpian, who has for years been a thorn in the side of Republican leadership....
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...He’s a congressman from Florida, and he’s been a thorn in the side of Kevin McCarthy ever since McCarthy tried to become speaker in the first place back in January of this year....
...The House of Representatives has now been without a Speaker for more than three weeks, after the ouster of Kevin McCarthy earlier this month....
...He vowed to ban Jeremy Corbyn, his predecessor as leader and a constant thorn in Starmer’s left-hand side, from standing for re-election as a Labour MP....
...At the same time, on Capitol Hill, Republican lawmakers are scrambling ahead of planned leadership elections that will determine the political futures of both Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell, and lay...
...Flanking the lanes are untrimmed hedgerows — green ramparts of bramble and thorn rising to a blue sky. April showers are over. The world stirs with twittering and twitching....
...The plants all seem to have thorns....
...And Kevin Kühnert, SPD general secretary, said international disputes were being deliberately encouraged “in order to bury projects that have always been a thorn in the side of some people” — an apparent...
...A barrage of Twitter posts sketched out a priest’s quest to save the site’s most sacred relic — the Crown of Thorns — as Parisian pompiers did battle with the flames through the night....
...Steny Hoyer, the Democratic House member from Maryland and Nancy Pelosi’s second-in-command, spoke to Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, on Wednesday about censuring Ms Greene....
...Among the recipients last year was the fundraising committee for the Republican congressman Kevin McCarthy, to which Sir Leonard gave $200,000....
...It was a terrific show but for many the real highlight of last Wednesday’s Romeo and Juliet came before the curtain went up when the Royal Ballet’s director, Kevin O’Hare, dedicated the performance to the...
...An effective communicator, Mr Dastyari was a thorn in the side of big business....
...Cantor Fitzgerald has added a 24-person global team led by Kevin Phillips and Hari Chandra focused on energy and power from Jefferies....
...In the kitchen is Kevin Tickle, an alumnus of Simon Rogan at L’Enclume, who earned his first Michelin star in October....
...“The prize is no longer being a thorn in the side of the party leadership, but becoming leadership,” he said. Additional reporting by Robert Wright in New York...
...Retailer Kevin Stanford has a 9 per cent stake, while a private equity arm of Lloyds has 5 per cent and management the remainder....
...Ms Warren is best known as a thorn in the side of big banks and represents the resurgent liberal wing of the Democratic party....
...But the unions could still be a thorn in the side of the White House as it tries to build political support for the negotiations, which are expected in effect to begin at some point in May or June....
...Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried To Be a Pop Star, by Tracey Thorn, Virago, RRP£16.99 / $27.95 A Smiths fanatic in her youth, Everything But the Girl’s Thorn has written a better memoir than...
...Kevin Thorn, area commercial director for HSBC, the bank, says: “Norfolk has probably weathered the downturn better than most because of the diversity of its industries.”...
...But as a thorn in the side of cyclical economic recovery, falling house prices have the potential to be more than just an irritant....
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