Tag Archives: Kevin McCarthy

Politico reports: Twice McCarthy has been on the precipice of taking the gavel, and twice a group of conservatives has worked to block him from the House’s most powerful perch. He bowed out of the race in 2015 amid the House Freedom Caucus opposition. This time, his allies say he’s prepared to fight until the potentially bitter end. How long …

Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire reports: Although the race for House speaker remains unsettled, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is already moving into the speaker’s suite. Sharing a video of a man carting a stack of blue containers in what appeared to be the U.S. Capitol, NBC News’ Haley Talbot reported McCarthy “has moved into” the suite of offices and …

Public Citizen reports: When the new Congress convenes tomorrow, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are set to vote on a rules package that guts the Office of Congressional Ethics. The first provision is designed to remove the long-standing Democrats from the board. The second is to make it difficult for OCE to staff its office. These are measures …

The New York Times reports: If Mr. McCarthy is unable to quickly win election, Republicans would be under immense pressure to coalesce around an alternative, ending a potentially chaotic and divisive fight on the floor that could taint the start of their majority in the House. Mr. Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, is in some ways Mr. McCarthy’s obvious …

“There is nothing that indicates to me that he is going to change his pattern since he has been in leadership, where he is part of the swamp cartel. “He is the reason on the Republican side why we pass massive omnibus spending bills that just got rammed down our throats by Republicans in the Senate. “He was part of …

Playbook reports: We caught up Sunday with one of the GOP fence-sitters, a member who has been in the room for these negotiations. And he told us that some of these undecided members won’t support McCarthy — even if he gives them everything they want. Can Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) deliver McCarthy the gavel? More so than Donald Trump, who …

The Hill reports: Nine House conservatives expressed doubts about electing Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) as the next speaker of the House, calling for a “radical departure from the status quo” ahead of the Tuesday floor vote. In a Sunday letter obtained by The Hill, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) led seven other hardline Republican House members …

Axios reports: Bolstered by conservative outrage over revelations in the “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk, House Republicans plan a new Judiciary Committee panel with the working name “Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.” It’s part of the aggressive posture planned by the GOP, which takes the House majority when the new Congress opens Tuesday. I’m told …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy has made perhaps his biggest concession so far to the band of conservatives standing in the way of his path to speaker. Yet it’s not clear if it will be enough to clinch his gavel. In a lengthy conference call on Sunday, McCarthy and his team informed members that he would lower the barriers for rank-and-file …

The Daily Beast reports: Incoming pro-Trump Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) claimed she received a threatening phone call from a fellow Republican member over her so far questionable support of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to become House Speaker. “What kind of blowback are you getting from the cartel?” Steve Bannon asked Luna on Friday, referring to McCarthy’s loyal supporters attempting …

Roll Call reports: A small faction of “never Kevin” Republicans is threatening to ensure McCarthy is denied the 218 votes needed to win the speaker’s election. But a larger group of Republicans who have pledged to vote for “only Kevin” are making clear they won’t support any other returning members of Congress for the role. The two positions are seemingly …

CNN reports: House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has offered a key concession to critics of his bid for the House speakership during private conversations this week: reducing the threshold that is required to force a floor vote on ousting the sitting speaker. One of the numbers that has come up in recent conversations between McCarthy and GOP lawmakers – and …

Politico reports: House conservatives are upping their demands on Kevin McCarthy as he tries to lock down the speaker’s gavel. Their new price: a select committee with a huge scope of targets. While the Republican leader and soon-to-be committee chairs have already lined up a laundry list of investigations that will largely command the House GOP’s agenda next year, it’s …

Politico reports: New guidelines sent to committees on Thursday and obtained exclusively by POLITICO lay out a messy, complicated process for how the speaker’s race will have a trickle-down effect on everything from paying committee staff to student loan repayments. “Committees need to be aware that should a House Rules package not be adopted by end of business on January …

Playbook reports: House Republicans are starting to ask themselves two “what-if” questions surrounding Kevin McCarthy’s fate: 1) If the California Republican gets the gavel, how long will he be speaker? And, if he doesn’t, 2) how does he serve out his remaining days in Congress? On the first question: There’s a consensus among many House Republicans, one that few would …

The Washington Post reports: “GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, who has now admitted his whopping lies, should resign,” tweeted Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), urging Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to call a vote to expel Santos if he does not quit. McCarthy (R-Calif.) has so far not responded to allegations that Santos misled voters about key details of his biography, …

Mediaite reports: The most prominent of the five holdouts blocking House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from becoming House Speaker is going on record with who he would like to see get the job. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — the highest-profile House Republican of the five who say they will not vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker under any circumstances, …

Politico reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told then-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, that Donald Trump had privately acknowledged losing the 2020 election, according to a newly disclosed interview Hutchinson gave to the Jan. 6 select committee. In the Sept. 14 interview — her fifth as a witness for the select committee — …

Gaetz writes in an op-ed for the Daily Caller: How well did Speaker Paul Ryan serve conservatives during then-President Donald Trump’s first term? Are we glad that his tenure got off to a smooth start? It would have been better to have debated and chosen the right leader. Ryan, of course, supports McCarthy. Every single Republican in Congress knows that …

Semafor reports: It’s been days since Republican Congressman-elect George Santos was caught by the New York Times allegedly faking just about every element of his biography and the GOP response has been muted so far — most notably, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has yet to weigh in. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the party to push Santos out. …