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Inside the House GOP's speakership crisis
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 14, 2023 01:24pm |
| Category | General |
| News Date | Jan 07, 2023 02:10am |
| Description | When a motley crew of about a dozen House Republicans huddled in a first-floor Capitol suite three ballots into a speakership crisis, no one knew whether their colleagues would negotiate in good faith.
But as Rep. Kelly Armstrong described it, allies of now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy didn’t enter the room expecting a resolution that night. They simply wanted “a path of how to start,” the North Dakota Republican said.
Armstrong, who’d backed McCarthy critic Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) for a seat on the Judiciary Committee, said he leaned on his background as a lawyer to make the case that if they could “take the temperature down … that’s better for everybody.”
Little did he know how much higher the heat had to climb in the House GOP conference before McCarthy could claim the gavel. Roy proved willing to negotiate as the week went on, but other dissenters — like Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) — dug in until the bitter end, setting up a House floor scene closer to reality TV than C-SPAN. |
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