GOP Rep Warns: I’ll Work With Dems To Select Speaker

GOP Rep. Don Bacon writes for the Daily Caller:

Much has been made of me saying I would work with moderate Democrats to elect a more moderate speaker. But my actual words were that if the five refused to coalesce around what the vast majority of the conference wants, I’m willing to work across the aisle to find an agreeable Republican.

We cannot be held captive by a small number and run the risk of delaying the formation of committees and working on the agenda we promised Americans this past November.

The real complaint here should be with the small faction who refuse to work with the rest of the conference. They are putting our majority in the House at risk. My point is that if a few won’t be part of the 218 members we need to govern, we’ll then find other ways to get to 218!

Read the full op-ed.