Texas Republican Rep.-elect Pete Sessions warned it is 'dangerous' for the House to be treated like the Senate in its operation as the chamber struggles to elect a speaker.
warned that treating the House like the Senate in operation is a"dangerous way for us to go."
"A lot of money, a million dollars spent against one of the sitting members in a primary. So there are deep-seated viewpoints about why they fought the way they fought," Sessions said."But we have to get to a circumstance where now this is holding back a Republican majority." Sessions is behind House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy in the race and said that "a lot of substance has come up" amid negotiations, including "a discussion about campaign activities that Mr. McCarthy was engaged in against other members of the conference."
"When I was chairman of the House Rules Committee, we needed to be able to have those powers to move not just legislation, but ideas without it taking weeks at a time," he continued."And at this point, this looks like this will be a way we will move forward with every single vote that's called on the floor."
He also said he knows both sides of the situation and that the two-week tally to determine chamber control and the fall and winter holidays made it hard to negotiate before the term started.
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