It's being called uncharted territory.

The US House of Representatives and is in recess until next week and it doesn't have a leader after yesterday, his historic vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

We'll have the Kentucky reaction to this in just a moment.

Now, the vote was 216 to 210.

Eight Republicans joined all Democrats to oppose McCarthy.

Those eight are part of a conservative faction unhappy with the recent spending bill to keep the government open for 45 days.

All of Kentucky's congressional Republicans voted to keep McCarthy.

The one Democrat, Morgan McGarvey, voted against him.

Now we have reactions tonight from several members of the Kentucky House delegation.

Congressman Thomas Massie of the fourth District in northern Kentucky praised McCarthy during the House floor debate.

I can tell you this motion to vacate is a terrible idea as the only member who's serving here who took every chance to vote against Speaker Boehner and to vote against Speaker Ryan.

I can tell you that this chamber has run has been run better, more conservatively and more transparently under Mr. McCarthy than any other speaker that I have served under.

Congressman Massie says that Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio is his choice to replace McCarthy.

Now, here is a statement from Congressman Hal Rogers of Kentucky's fifth District.

He said, quote, The House made a monumental mistake by ousting Speaker McCarthy.

He showed immense courage and leadership by negotiating a deal to avoid a government shutdown, even at the risk of losing his gavel.

I am grateful for his service and quote Congressman Andy Barr of the sixth District in central Kentucky spoke on the Fox News Channel just after the vote.

He said this is a setback for the conservative agenda.

But today was a sad day for the conservative movement.

Today was a sad day for the Republican Party because every day that goes on, we don't have a speaker's a day.

We don't have an impeachment inquiry.

It's a day that goes by where we can't pass conservative appropriations bills as a day that passes that we are advocating for border security and in a narrow majority, Brat tactics matter.

And joining with Democrats to defeat conservative bills is not advancing the conservative cause.

The only Democrat in Kentucky's U.S. House delegation is Morgan McGarvey, who represents the Louisville area third District.

He says this shake up couldn't come at a worse time.

But no business can take place until we have a new speaker.

And that's why I absolutely take no joy in the Republican dysfunction we're seeing right now.

We have to govern.

We have less than 45 days for the government to be funded and remain open.

We just made progress on that last week.

And here we are going back and forth where one with the removal of the speaker.

So I'm here.

I stand ready to work.

My Democratic colleagues stand ready to work and to govern responsibly instead of what we're seeing from the extremes.

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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate minority leader, praised McCarthy in a statement.

Here's part of what he said.

Quote, Speaker McCarthy has my sincere thanks for his service to our nation and what is often a thankless role.

The speaker's tenure was bookended by historic fights, but as he reminded his colleagues when he took the gavel.

Our nation is worth fighting for.

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