Kevin McCarthy reflects on history during tour of first speaker's house
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EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., spoke about the importance of his position in U.S. history and how he looks to history for guidance.
"I wanted to come to the house of the very first speaker of the House of Representatives, Frederick Muhlenberg. You learn from history," McCarthy told Fox News Digital in an exlusive interview following the tour. "Think about if you became the very first speaker of Congress — setting up a new nation, how did you create the tradition, the history?" Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
"And when you study his time of being speaker, there's something that stands out: I might have a little in common with him. He didn't win on the first ballot. It took him a couple ballots to win there," he continued. "So, he had some fortitude, some grit, which you needed back in the time. How did he make sure the Constitution was upheld? How did he make sure committees did the work, that the speaker didn't suck in all the power?"
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