House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy is working to shore up the votes to become speaker after a much-predicated Republican wave failed to materialize on election night.
At least one prominent McCarthy ally says the would-be speaker has learned from the experience.
Also benefiting McCarthy is that the Freedom Caucus has changed. In 2015, the group was largely organized around its opposition to Boehner and centralized power within the speaker's office. It also wants to permanently ban congressional earmarks, require that legislation be publicly available for at least 72 hours before a vote takes place, and diversify the steering committee that has power over committee assignments.
"The ‘leadership’ of a GOP majority – with a seven-seat margin or a 17-seat margin – has a duty to use the power of the purse to extract change," said Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican and member of the Freedom Caucus. "It's imaginable for McCarthy to go into a conference meeting and say [that] we're going to adopt the majority rule for everything that comes on the floor of the House," said the aide."If you want it for legislation, then we also need it for leadership elections. And if there is a majority behind something, then the entire conference should vote for it."
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