Thursday, January 05, 2023

McCarthy offers concessions to secure votes from GOP holdouts ahead of seventh speaker vote

Too little too late? What took him so long! This should have been done before January 3rd! It leaves the bad taste that this man is indeed not qualified to become the next Speaker of the House!

Are these concessions even enough or well chosen! What about e.g. debt ceiling or balanced budgets?

"... The concessions on the table, according to a source, include changes to the rules surrounding the appropriations process that would allow amendments on the floor from any member regardless of the committees they sit on, a vote on term limits for members of Congress and two seats for House Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee. Congressional Leadership Fund, the independent super PAC endorsed by McCarthy, agreed to "not spend in any open-seat primaries in safe Republican districts and CLF will not grant resources to other super PAC’s to do so," according to a statement from the group. ..."

McCarthy offers concessions to secure votes from GOP holdouts ahead of seventh speaker vote | Just The News

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