U.S. House paralyzed as conservative Republicans' fight with McCarthy drags on

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The U.S. House adjourned Wednesday following a day of paralyzed floor action as a dispute between members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy drags on.

Nearly a dozen members of the hard-right GOP group tanked a procedural vote on Tuesday in retribution for the debt ceiling deal previously brokered by the speaker and President Biden.

Eleven Republicans joined Democratic lawmakers in voting to stop debate on a pair of bills that would ramp us gas stove protections — a GOP priority that had been expected to garner most Republican support. It marked the first such failure on the House floor in more than 20 years.

The publicly humiliating blow for McCarthy and House Republican leadership follows intraparty discord lingering from the debt deal, with conservative Republicans saying the compromise legislation didn't go far enough to cut spending.