{"id":1822766,"date":"2023-01-24T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822766"},"modified":"2023-01-24T20:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:05:23","slug":"it-would-be-a-whole-different-night-top-gop-rep-says-heated-moment-on-house-floor-could-have-sunk-mccarthys-speakership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-would-be-a-whole-different-night-top-gop-rep-says-heated-moment-on-house-floor-could-have-sunk-mccarthys-speakership\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Would Be A Whole Different Night\u2019: Top GOP Rep Says Heated Moment On House Floor Could Have Sunk McCarthy\u2019s Speakership"},"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\">42<\/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%2Fit-would-be-a-whole-different-night-top-gop-rep-says-heated-moment-on-house-floor-could-have-sunk-mccarthys-speakership%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=1822766&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>Patrick McHenry (Republican from NC) shared new insights into the tense moments during the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House<\/a> Floor for the Speaker of House Election.<\/p>\n<p>Interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/politics\/2023\/01\/24\/--it-was-a-wild-week---rep--mchenry-recounts-tumultuous-speaker-vote#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spectrum News<\/a>McHenry gave new details on the House floor fight between McCarthy&#8217;s allies and the 20 Republican standouts opposing his speakership bid. He also spoke about the fight which almost broke out between two members and that it was a pivotal point in the long conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad [North Carolina Republican Rep.] Richard Hudson not been there it would be a whole different night. It would be a whole different week and Kevin McCarthy would not be Speaker of the House,\u201d McHenry shared his thoughts with Spectrum reporter Reuben Jones. \u201cHad Richard Hudson not walked over when he did, and instinctively do the right thing to remove somebody from a bad situation, that was on the cusp of getting much much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatrickMcHenry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PatrickMcHenry<\/a> says if Richard Hudson didn\u2019t restrain Mike Rogers from Matt Gaetz on the House floor during the Speaker vote Kevin McCarthy would not be Speaker today.<\/p>\n<p>View the FULL story <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JdPnvV1OVq\">https:\/\/t.co\/JdPnvV1OVq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ncpol?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ncpol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepHudsonNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepHudsonNC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlb5MEpXTW\">pic.twitter.com\/xlb5MEpXTW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuben Jones (@ReubenJones1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReubenJones1\/status\/1618008427263066125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the 14th ballot of speakership votes had ended and McCarthy had failed to win a majority of votes again, McCarthy approached Matt Gaetz (R.-FL) to start talking to them. McHenry tried to get to know Gaetz while McHenry was talking to McCarthy. McHenry was speaking to McCarthy when Rep. Mike Rogers (R\u2013AL) came up behind him and began berating Gaetz. Hudson quickly stepped in and restrained Rogers. He grabbed him by his face and pulled him away, while McCarthy returned to his seat.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kevin McCarthy confronts Matt Gaetz during 14th House Speaker vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/118thCongress?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#118thCongress<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMa9bm0KSN\">pic.twitter.com\/nMa9bm0KSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CSPAN (@cspan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1611575953024778240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>McHenry said that the C-SPAN video didn\u2019t fully capture the atmosphere in the chamber. \u201cIt was much more tense on the [House] floor than what what the video gives credit to,\u201d He stated.<\/p>\n<p>McHenry had been working with Gaetz in negotiations to change his vote before the exchange between Rogers &#038; Gaetz. \u201cThe goal was to get him to vote for Kevin and I quickly realized that I needed to move to a more modest goal which was for him to move to [vote] present as a sign of goodwill,\u201d He stated. He told the outlet he had no idea that C-SPAN cameras were on him in the moment, but that wouldn\u2019t have changed anything. \u201cHad you told me at the moment, it wouldn\u2019t have affected a single thing I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McHenry, a conservative Republican Study Committee member, currently serves as the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. From 2014 to 2019, he was Republican Chief Deputy Whip. He briefly held the position of House Majority Whip after Rep. Steve Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, was shot at Congressional Baseball Game 2017. Spectrum News reported that McHenry was considered as a compromise speaker candidate if McCarthy couldn&#8217;t get the votes. McHenry was still able to maintain good relationships with his fellow members of the caucus.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReubenJones1\/status\/1618008434456297473?s=20&#038;t=VYJc5kOE3B056Ia06d4V5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">flatly said \u201cno\u201d<\/a> When asked if it would be his dream to become a speaker, he said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers and Gaetz are both still in business. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/matt-gaetz-says-all-is-forgiven-after-house-floor-row-with-fellow-gop-rep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made up their quarrel<\/a>. \u201c@RepMikeRogersAL\u00a0and I have a six-year productive, working relationship,\u201d Gaetz tweeted January 8 \u201cWe\u2019re going to work together wonderfully going forward. I don\u2019t think there should be any punishment or reprisal just because he had an animated moment. He has my forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@RepMattGaetz\u00a0and I have a long and productive working relationship, that I am sure will continue,\u201d Rogers&#8217; quote-tweeted as a reply to Gaetz \u201cI regret that I briefly lost my temper on the House Floor Friday evening and appreciate Matt\u2019s kind understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogers resigned from his position as the chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rep-mike-rogers-to-step-down-from-gop-steering-committee-days-after-tense-confrontation-with-fellow-republican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican Steering Committee<\/a> After the exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) gave new insight into the tense moments on the House floor over the Speaker of the House election. In an interview with Spectrum News, McHenry provided new details about the fight on the House floor between allies of now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and the 20 Republican holdouts who opposed his speakership &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1822769,"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":[5426,6203,15978,3653,7454,7563,5616,6692,7129,9296,16338],"class_list":["post-1822766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-floor","tag-gop","tag-heated","tag-house","tag-it","tag-mccarthys","tag-moment","tag-night","tag-rep","tag-speakership","tag-sunk"],"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\/1822766","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}