{"id":1805853,"date":"2023-01-14T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1805853"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T17:21:13","slug":"house-republicans-cooking-with-gas-in-mccarthys-first-week-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-cooking-with-gas-in-mccarthys-first-week-as-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans \u2018Cooking With Gas\u2019 In McCarthy\u2019s First Week As Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fhouse-republicans-cooking-with-gas-in-mccarthys-first-week-as-speaker%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=1805853&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-->\n<p>\u201cWhile President Biden wants to control the kind of stove Americans can cook on, House Republicans are certainly cooking with gas,\u201d McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy\/status\/1613912049733492737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweeted Friday<\/a>The reference is to the controversy about the Biden administration reportedly considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/transparently-political-biden-administration-considering-ban-on-gas-stoves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gas stoves are banned<\/a>. \u201cThis week wasn\u2019t just the start of a new Congress \u2014 it is the start of a new direction in Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to legislation, the House made it possible for high-profile investigations during this term. This included the approval of the formation of a panel to investigate the allegations. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/3807584-house-gop-approves-resolution-to-create-panel-to-probe-weaponization-of-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cweaponization\u201d<\/a> The federal government. Nearly 150 Democrats joined Republicans to create the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States And the Chinese Communist Party. House Republicans are also involved. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-judiciary-committee-launches-investigation-into-biden-documents-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Investigations began into the growing scandal<\/a> over President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans still place border security at the top of their priorities. A group GOP lawmakers demanded that the intelligence community be briefed on national security threats presented by the \u201copen\u201d U.S.-Mexico border, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/house-republicans-call-intel-briefing-security-threats-open-southern-border?intcmp=tw_pols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-house-republican-files-impeachment-articles-against-dhs-secretary-mayorkas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduced articles for impeachment<\/a> Alejandro Mayorkas, Homeland Security Secretary, is being accused of \u201chigh crimes and misdemeanors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taking aim at members across the aisle,\u00a0McCarthy made good on a promise to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mccarthy-bounces-dems-swalwell-schiff-omar-from-key-house-committees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three high-profile Democrats are promoted<\/a> \u2014 Reps. Adam Schiff (CA), Eric Swalwell (CA), and Ilhan Omar (MN) \u2014 from perches on key committees. Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mccarthy-invites-biden-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden accepted McCarthy\u2019s invitation<\/a> To deliver the State of the Union Address on February 7.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy may have been on a roll but he came out of the long vote for speaker with checks to his power. He made concessions to GOP supporters and agreed to a rule change that would allow only one member of Congress to file a request for a change in the rules. \u201cmotion to vacate,\u201d This would open the door to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/speaker-of-the-house-ousted-motion-to-vacate-rcna64902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A simple majority vote can remove the speaker<\/a>. Republicans are a minority in the House and can lose a few votes by collaborating with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D\u2013NY), who was elected top Democrat in lower chamber from Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, with the new session. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJeffries\/status\/1613969336691220481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A tweet Friday praised the news<\/a>: \u201cInflation is down for the sixth consecutive month. More than 10 million good-paying jobs have been created under President Biden. And Dems are just getting started for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 15 rounds of contentious voting for speaker behind them, House Republicans rallied behind Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) during his first week with the gavel. GOP lawmakers passed a rules package that will govern how the lower chamber operates for the next two years, after which the House immediately began considering legislation while the Democrat-led &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1805856,"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":[541],"tags":[13412,6202,7536,3653,7563,3756,5654,3912,6195],"class_list":["post-1805853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-cooking","tag-daily","tag-gas","tag-house","tag-mccarthys","tag-republicans","tag-speaker","tag-week","tag-wire"],"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\/1805853","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1805856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}