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McCarthy has fallen just short of the number he needs in order to become election speakers.
麦卡锡的得票数少于他成为议长所需的票数。
And as a result, we have no speaker and we really have no Congress because the house can't get up and running until it decides who his leader's going to be.
因此，麦卡锡无法当选议长，国会也无法运转，因为在决定议长之前众议院无法宣誓就职并正常运转。
There's a group of really hardcore conservatives who either don't like Kevin McCarthy or don't like the Republican leadership in general, and they're just enough of them to deny him a vote of the majority of the House.
共和党有一群非常坚定的保守派人士，他们要么不喜欢凯文·麦卡锡，要么不喜欢整个共和党的领导层，他们的人数足以妨碍麦卡锡在众议院获得足够多数党的选票。
We're in historic territory now.
我们现在处于历史性时刻。
We haven't seen this many ballots for a House speaker since 1859.
这是自1859年以来第一次进行这么多轮众议院议长投票。
That was right before the Civil War, and it's a fairly unprecedented situation for modern politics.
上一次是在内战之前的事了，现代政治开始之后还没有过这样的情况。
The biggest consequences that the House is, the new House is frozen in place.
新一届众议院面临的最严重后果是，无法做出任何行动。
I mean, these guys were just elected in November.
我是说，新一任议员在11月刚刚当选。
They expected to take office this month.
他们预计将于本月宣誓就职。
But under House rules, you have to elect a speaker of the House before you can swear new members in, before you can create committees, before you can take up legislation.
但根据众议院的规定，你必须选出一位众议院议长，才能让新议员宣誓就职，成立委员会，并开始立法。
It's just not a very good look for the United States government.
这对美国政府来说前景并不好。
Simply put, we at least expect the government to function and be up and running and for people to be working every day, but right now we're not because House Republicans can't agree on who should be the speaker.
简而言之，我们希望至少政府能够正常运转，为人民工作，但现在我们实现不了这个目标，因为众议院共和党人无法就议长职位的人选达成一致。
Well, the Republican Party is very divided, and that's a problem considering that they do in fact control the House of Representatives right now.
共和党内部分歧很大，考虑到他们现在确实控制着众议院，这是一个问题。
I think we'll be seeing this for the next two years that this House will be in session.
我认为接下来两年我们可能看到，众议院会一直开会。
We'll see constant complaints between the Republican conservatives and the more conservative members who want to do things in a different way.
我们将看到共和党的保守派和更极端的保守派成员之间因为行事方式的不同产生很多矛盾。
