Kevin McCarthy has gone from condemning to tolerating to rewarding Marjorie Taylor Greene with breathtaking speed. As stevebenen writes, it's an evolution that's unfolded quickly over the course of three short years.
[Greene said] the reason for her change of heart was that Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., promised her a seat on the conference committee that will hash out the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. Greene, who is opposed to additional funding for Ukraine, said her goal in the conference committee will be to convince her colleagues that if more money for the war-torn country should be offered as part of a separate supplemental funding package.
I suspect that many will see the phrase “conference committee” and get bored, but on Capitol Hill, this matters: The NDAA not only funds the United States military, it also guides Pentagon policy. It’s not an exaggeration to say as much legislative work goes into this one package as any other bill in a typical Congress.
Because the House and Senate have very different versions of the package, members of the conference committee will be tasked with reconciling the competing details and hammering out a solution to be sent back to both chambers. Ordinarily, that power would go to members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, who’ve spent months writing the bill.
But this year, the House speaker agreed to put Greene on the conference committee — despite the fact that she’s not on the relevant committees, and despite the fact that the extremist spent last week pushing for the United States to
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