{"id":1764256,"date":"2022-12-06T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764256"},"modified":"2022-12-06T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:48:16","slug":"republican-plans-for-house-committees-delayed-as-mccarthys-prospects-for-speaker-bid-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-plans-for-house-committees-delayed-as-mccarthys-prospects-for-speaker-bid-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Plans for House Committees Delayed as McCarthy&#8217;s Prospects for Speaker Bid Uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-plans-for-house-committees-delayed-as-mccarthys-prospects-for-speaker-bid-uncertain%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1764256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/100-10-8\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">W<\/span>ith House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) prospects for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/mccarthy-struggles-sway-gop-detractors-extended-conference-rules-debate\">locking down<\/a> the speakership remaining uncertain, the House GOP\u2019s steering committee has opted to push back its date for deciding contested races for committee chairmanships, with the panel only set to take up uncontested chair races on Wednesday, multiple senior GOP sources confirmed to the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>The steering committee is tasked with deciding which members sit on and lead certain panels. The speaker of the House is allotted a disproportionate number of votes \u2014 four, the No. 2 GOP member in leadership receives two, and all other steering members receive one. <\/p>\n<p>Two GOP lawmakers said they believe the steering proceedings could be pushed back to after the Jan. 3 floor vote, when the floor vote for speaker is slated to take place. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/republicans-approve-second-round-rule-changes\">HOUSE REPUBLICANS VOTE TO KEEP EARMARKS IN SECOND ROUND OF RULE CHANGES<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Facing a razor-thin majority, McCarthy is currently struggling to secure the 218 votes needed on the floor to become the next speaker. Five conservatives \u2014 former House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Biggs (R-AZ), who challenged McCarthy in the internal election, Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), and Bob Good (R-VA) \u2014 have publicly come out against the California Republican, vowing that they won\u2019t even vote &#8220;present&#8221; on the floor to bring down his threshold needed for the position. Multiple GOP lawmakers said additional members are expected to voice opposition to McCarthy in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat looks incredibly weak for McCarthy \u2014 if he has to delay that until after the speaker vote, he\u2019s got serious problems,\u201d one GOP aide told the <i>Washington Examiner.<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Other senior GOP sources said McCarthy\u2019s numbers problem may stem beyond the far-right flank of the party as he works to shore up support. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are [non-Freedom Caucus] members that Kevin McCarthy has not asked directly for their support,\u201d one senior GOP source familiar with the situation said. \u201cThe fact is that he&#8217;s so focused on trying to appeal to the right flank that it seems like he&#8217;s just resting on his laurels that all the rest of them will fall into line \u2014 I just don\u2019t know that\u2019s the case.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite members of the conference voicing that they will not vote for him on the floor, McCarthy has expressed confidence that he will prevail in his quest to become speaker. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The California Republican has cautioned that if members of the conference don\u2019t rally around him on the floor, there is a possibility that Democrats could get their speaker of choice. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to speak as one voice. We will only be successful if we work together or we\u2019ll lose individually. This is very fragile \u2014 that we are the only stopgap for this Biden administration,\u201d McCarthy <u><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sUrK1Le5aw\">said on Newsmax<\/a><\/u> late last month. &#8220;And if we don\u2019t do this right, the Democrats can take the majority. If we play games on the floor, the Democrats can end up picking who the speaker is.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>His defectors have asserted that they believe the party will rally around a compromise candidate in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) prospects for locking down the speakership remaining uncertain, the House GOP\u2019s steering committee has opted to push<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1764259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}