McCarthy delivers first speech, speaks on China

In his first speech, the newly elected United States House of Representatives Speaker Kelvin McCarthy says the U.S. House will address “the rise of the Chinese communist party”.

McCarthy, throughout his speech, referred to China as the “Chinese Community Party.”

According to him, the new House of Representatives’ ambition is for the US to win the economic competition against China.

“We’ll also address America’s long-term challenges, the debt and the rise of the Chinese communist party.

“As for the Chinese communist party, we will create a bipartisan select committee on China to investigate how to bring back the hundreds of thousands of jobs that went to China, and then we will win this economic competition,” McCarthy said.

He, therefore, told his colleagues that his emergence and the commencement of the 118th Congress marked the beginning of hard work.

“What we do here today, next week, next month, next year, will set the tone for everything that follows,” he added.

He also assured that he would serve by talking “directly to the American people.”

“As speaker of the House, my ultimate responsibility is not to my party, my conference, or even our Congress. My responsibility, our responsibility, is to our country,” McCarthy pledged.

He also acknowledged that his emergence was an unusually tortuous journey, saying “I never thought we’d get up here”.

McCarthy became the 55th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives after a record 15 rounds of voting, making the election the longest speaker contest in 164 years.