House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s political troubles don’t stop at the Washington Beltway.In his central California hometown of Bakersfield, where oil derricks blanket the hillsides and ...

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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves after a news conference at the East Steps of the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29, 2022, in Washington, DC.

McCarthy also was effective in this state because, before heading to Congress in 2007, he was in the Assembly from 2002-2006, and minority leader for most of the last two years of that period.