Hard-line House Republicans amp up pressure on GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy with list of speaker demands
The Thursday letter addressed to colleagues includes demands the House Freedom Caucus has been pushing for to make the legislative process friendlier to rank-and-file Republicans. The letter doesn't name McCarthy specifically but makes clear he will have to listen to the demands to earn the seven crucial votes of the letter's writers.
"For years, however, the House leadership of both parties has increasingly centralized decision-making power around fewer and fewer individuals — at the expense of deliberation and input by the body," they continued."This results in massive, multi-subject bills that are unable to be amended or fully read, all driven by supposedly must-pass defense and appropriations measures.
NEW: A group of conservatives sent a Dear Colleague letter today listing out calls for the next Speaker to implement changes including preventing leadership from getting involved in primaries. pic.twitter.
The seven signers are Reps. Scott Perry , the Freedom Caucus chairman; Dan Bishop ; Paul Gosar ; Chip Roy ; Andrew Clyde ; and two incoming freshman lawmakers: Reps.-elect Eli Crane and Andy Ogles . The group is different from the five Republicans who have either said or strongly indicated they will not vote for McCarthy for speaker.McCarthy huddled with Rep.
With a slim 222-seat majority over the Democrats' 213 seats, McCarthy can only afford to have about four members of his own caucus vote against him to become speaker of the House, which requires majority approval from the entire House.
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