Electing the House speaker may have been the easy part. Now House Republicans will try to govern.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy passed his first tests late Monday as the Republicans approved their rules package for governing House operations, typically a routine step on Day One that stretched into the second week of the new majority. It was approved 220-213, a party-line vote with one Republican opposed.
But first McCarthy, backed by former President Donald Trump, needs to show the Republican majority can keep up with basics of governing. Central to the package is the provision the conservative Freedom Caucus wanted that reinstates a longstanding rule that allows any one lawmaker make a motion to "vacate the chair" - a vote to oust the speaker. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi had done away with the rule when Democrats took charge in 2019 because conservatives had held it over past Republican speakers as a threat.But that's not the only change.
"A little temporary conflict is necessary in this town in order to stop this town from rolling over the American people," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said over the weekend on CNN.
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