What Chip Roy Wants from Kevin McCarthy

One of the key demands of the House Republicans refusing to support Kevin McCarthy for speaker is that they want more power on the influential Rules Committee, the last stop for any piece of legislation before it hits the House floor.

As I noted earlier, Texas GOP congressman Chip Roy, one of the leaders of the House GOP rebels, has been somewhat vague in public about the changes he wants on the committee, but Bloomberg’s Billy House and Erik Wasson report that “hard-line conservatives want to claim four of the nine [Republican] seats on the House Rules Committee, which would give them outsized influence on what does — and what does not — get debated on the House floor.”

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One of the key demands of the House Republicans refusing to support Kevin McCarthy for speaker is that they want more power on the influential Rules Committee, the last stop for any piece of legislation before it hits the House floor.

As I noted earlier, Texas GOP congressman Chip Roy, one of the leaders of the House GOP rebels, has been somewhat vague in public about the changes he wants on the committee, but Bloomberg’s Billy House and Erik Wasson report that “hard-line conservatives want to claim four of the nine [Republican] seats on the House Rules Committee, which would give them outsized influence on what does — and what does not — get debated on the House floor.”