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Friday, October 9, 2015
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McCarthy exits speaker race
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By Erica Werner
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - With no
warning, Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy withdrew Thursday
from the contest for speaker of
the U.S. House, shocking fellow
Republicans just before voting
was to begin and plunging Con-
gress into chaos.
Lawmakers said they were
thunderstruck and in disbelief
following McCarthy’s
nouncement, which came mo-
ments after they had shown up
for an election nearly certain to
end with McCarthy as their pick.
A mere two weeks ago outgoing
Speaker John Boehner an-
nounced his plans to resign un-
der conservative pressure, also
without warning and stunning
to all.
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In this Sept. 17 photo, Defense Secretary Ash Carter raises the
injured left arm of Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, before
Stone received the Airman’s Medal and Purple Heart medal,
during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington.
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Boehner, who planned to
leave Oct. 30, said in a statement
that he would stay on “until the
House votes to elect a new
speaker.”
McCarthy said, “Over the last
week it has become clear to me
that our conference is deeply di-
vided and needs to unite behind
one leader. I have always put this
conference ahead of myself.
Therefore I am withdrawing my
candidacy for speaker of the
House.”
Speaking to reporters, Mc-
Carthy said: “For us to unite, we
probably need a fresh face.” He
said he didn’t want to win by ek-
ing out victory because the
House needs a speaker with
strong GOP support. McCarthy
was being opposed by a small
but determined bloc of hardline
conservatives.
McCarthy said he would stay
on as majority leader. The
speaker’s election was post-
poned, as maybe the scheduled
Oct. 29 vote for speaker by the
full House, Democrats as well as
Republicans.
What happens next is un-
known. McCarthy was by far the
heavy favorite to replace Boehn-
er. Congress is facing major bud-
get deadlines and fiscal deci-
sions.
Evan Vucci/AP
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California walks out of a nomination vote meeting
on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday after dropping out of the race to replace House
Speaker John Boehner.
said it would be easy for Demo-
crats to poke fun at the Repub-
licans’ troubles if not for the seri-
ous issues Congress faces. He
said the next speaker will have to
tame a small but vocal group of
lawmakers with a strong ideo-
logical bent or find a way to
“buck up” more mainstream
House Republicans.
The lawmaker most widely
seen as a potential speaker in
McCarthy’s place immediately
ruled it out.
“Kevin McCarthy is the best
person to lead the House, and so
I’m disappointed in this deci-
sion,” said Rep. Paul Ryan of
Wisconsin, the former vice pres-
idential nominee who now
chairs the Ways and Means
Committee. ‘While I am grate-
ful for the encouragement I’ve
received, I will not be a candi-
date.”
conservative lawmakers who
didn’t command the numbers to
block him in Thursday’s secret-
ballot elections, but might have
prevented him from winning a
floor vote later on.
There was talk among some
lawmakers of elevating a “care-
taker” speaker who could serve
with consensus support at least
for the short term.
Rank-and-file
er seen anything like this. I’d bet
you most other members who
have been here 20 or 30 years
would say the same thing.”
“He was making his plea this
morning for speaker and this af-
ternoon he’s out of the race.
What happened in those four
hours, I don’t know,” said Rep.
John Fleming of Louisiana.
Several Republicans were
crying after McCarthy’s an-
nouncement, lawmakers at the
meeting said.
The other two announced
Republican candidates for
speaker — Reps. Jason Chaffetz
of Utah and Daniel Webster of
Florida — lack widespread sup-
port in the House GOP, al-
though Webster has the backing
of the hardline House Freedom
Caucus.
Thursday’s secret ballot —
even if it had proceeded as ex-
pected — still would have been
merely an early skirmish in the
chaotic battle to lead the House.
It was to have been followed by
the vote in the full House where
the Freedom Caucus could have
blocked McCarthy’s ascent.
other, and one person got
knocked down.
Police said two assailants fled
in a car. No immediate arrests
were made.
Bernard said Stone was out
with four friends when they got
into a fight with another group
of people. The deputy chief
would not say what sparked the
argument. He said there was no
evidence the assailants knew
who Stone was.
Bernard said he did not
know whether Stone was drink-
ing, but others in his group were.
In August, Stone and two of
his childhood friends from Sac-
ramento, National Guardsman
Alek Skarlatos and college stu-
dent Anthony Sadler, were vaca-
tioning in Europe when they
sprang into action aboard a Par-
is-bound passenger train and
tackled Ayoub El-Khazzani, a
man with ties to radical Islam.
He had boarded the train with a
Kalashnikov rifle, a pistol and a
box cutter.
By Don Thompson
and Julie Watson
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -
Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone,
celebrated as a hero for helping
to stop a terror attack on a
French train over the summer,
was stabbed and seriously
wounded outside a bar in his
hometown early Thursday in
what police said was an alcohol-
related brawl.
Stone, 23, was knifed repeat-
edly in the upper body but was
expected to survive, authorities
said. He was taken to UC Davis
Medical Center.
“This incident is not related
to terrorism in anyway,” Deputy
Police Chief Ken Bernard said.
“We know it’s not related to what
occurred in France months ago.”
A grainy surveillance video
from a camera outside a liquor
store showed a man who ap-
peared to be Stone fighting with
several people at an intersection.
The group spilled into the street
as people took swings at each
lawmakers
seemed unsure how to react or
what to say as they milled
around the lobby of the Long-
worth Office Building where
they had gathered to eat barbe-
cue and then — they thought —
vote for a new speaker. Instead
the meeting was adjourned mo-
ments after it began with Mc-
Carthy making his jaw-drop-
ping announcement as his wife
and kids looked on.
“Disbelief, from the surprise
announcement by Boehner to
the quick nature of this election
to it now being postponed — it’s
uncertainty on top of uncertain-
ty,” said freshman Rep. Ryan
Costello of Pennsylvania. “I’ve
been here nine months, I’ve nev-
One leadership ally, Rep.
Steve Stivers of Ohio, said Mc-
Carthy “didn’t see a path to 218”
— the number of votes needed
to prevail on the House floor.
McCarthy faced opposition
from a bloc of 30-plus hardline
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This 2008 photo shows the campus of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt.
Assaults in study-abroad
programs draw attention
SIT. But after he returned to
campus last winter, Middlebury
did a separate investigation, and
he was expelled over the sum-
mer.
colleges and universities are
thinking about,” said Joseph
Storch, associate counsel for the
State University of New York
system, who regularly travels the
country to discuss the legal
questions around study-abroad
programs. “There are no simple
answers.”
Middlebury College, a pri-
vate, 2,500-student liberal arts
college at the foothills of the
Green Mountains, found out the
hard way that punishing a stu-
dent accused of sexual assault is
easier said than done.
On the first day of classes this
September, a federal judge or-
dered the school to readmit a
student it had expelled for a sex-
ual encounter that occurred
overseas; the country has not
been named.
The accuser came from an-
other school; the two were
studying abroad through a pro-
gram run by Vermont’s School
for International Training.
The Middlebury student, re-
ferred to in court documents on-
ly as John Doe, argued he had
been cleared of wrongdoing by
an investigation conducted by
By Wilson Ring
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. - As
colleges wrestle with how to ad-
dress sexual assault, a legal chal-
lenge involving a small Vermont
institution brings an obscure
part of the equation to the fore:
how to report, investigate and
punish sexual assaults that hap-
pen in overseas-study programs.
Statistics on such assaults are
scant, although no one disputes
they occur.
The federal requirements for
schools to report and investigate
sexual assaults overseas can be
murky. And because perpetra-
tors and victims can be from dif-
ferent schools or studying
through programs run by other
institutions, colleges’ options on
punishing students internally
can be tricky.
Responding to critics’ argu-
ments that campus sexual as-
saults are underreported, state
governments and even Congress
are beginning to take steps to
better monitor those crimes,
and are specifically including
overseas study programs.
“These are real things that
Doe sued Middlebury for
breach of contract and got a fed-
eral judge to issue a preliminary
injunction so he could return to
school. Middlebury is appealing
to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in New York and has
asked for a quick hearing.
“As this case moves forward, I
think universities will pay atten-
tion to how the court deter-
mines whether SIT’s investiga-
tion was sufficient or Middle-
bury College’s secondary investi-
gation was sufficient,” said
Michael Pfahl, associate counsel
at Kent State University in Ohio.
While the number of Amer-
ican students studying abroad
has skyrocketed in the past two
decades — from 71,000 in 1991-
92 to 289,000 in 2012-2013 -
there are no comparable data for
sex assaults in those programs,
said Brian Whalen, president of
the Forum on Education
Abroad, which is tracking such
crimes.
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