GOP House Rules Package Passes In Party Line Vote

The Hill reports:

House Republicans on Monday adopted a rules package that will govern how the chamber operates for the next two years in a closely watched vote that came on the heels of last week’s drawn-out Speaker fight.

The vote was the first legislative battle for newly-elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his House Republican conference.

The terms in the package were central to closed-door negotiations last week between McCarthy allies and detractors. McCarthy had to give up a number of rules concessions to win over some of his GOP holdouts and put him over the finish line.

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JUST NOW: The new House rules would:

-enable the GOP to defund a criminal investigation into Trump.

-defund Office of Congressional Ethics.

-enable a Republican being investigated by FBI to investigate the investigators investigating him.

I’m voting NO on the rules package. pic.twitter.com/TAaiHtkJAn

— Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) January 9, 2023