House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy spoke with political journalists about a wide range of issues at a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast event at the St.*Regis Hotel. Among his comments he predicted that tea party movement-backed Ted Cruz’s previous night victory in the the Texas Senate Republican primary runoff was an indication that what happened in the House during the 2010 elections was starting to happen in the Senate. Other topics included the presidential election and tax cut bills now making their way through Congress.