Kevin McCarthy Wants House Vote on Delaying Afghanistan Withdrawal House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., gestures as he speaks at a press conference at the Capitol building on Aug. 27, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) By Jeffrey Rodack    |   Friday, 27 August 2021 12:09 PM House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., in a nationally televised interview, is demanding Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., bring the House back in session to deal with the terror attacks in Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U.S. troops. His comments came Friday during an interview on television’s “Fox & Friends.” The terror attacks at the Kabul international airport on Thursday killed 13 U.S. service members and scores of civilians. Meanwhile, 12,500 people ‘escaped’ from Afghanistan on Thursday – with many more people – including Americans – hoping to ‘get out.’ The U.S. death toll made it the deadliest single incident for American forces in Afghanistan in a decade and one of the deadliest of the entire 20-year war, according to Reuters. McCarthy wants lawmakers to vote to block the withdrawal of U.S. soldiers until every American is evacuated, according to Fox News. “Long before this collapse in Afghanistan, we have been catching people on the terrorist watch list […]