Still steaming over debt deal, conservatives derail House action
Chip Roy, R-Texas, referring to the debt limit package. "We warned them not to cut that deal without coming down and sitting down and talk[ing] to us.
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Chip Roy, R-Texas, referring to the debt limit package. "We warned them not to cut that deal without coming down and sitting down and talk[ing] to us.
John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the tax-writing Finance Committee, described the clawback plans as a "good down payment" toward rescinding the full $80 billion.
"This bill doesn’t get us to fiscal 2022 levels, and that in itself should be enough to vote against the rule," Freedom Caucus member Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said.
"If you’re in the majority, you have the responsibility of running this place and and he seems to have a problem being able to do that," McGovern said, referring to Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.
That’s what Republican negotiator and House Financial Services Chairman Patrick T. McHenry told reporters shortly after Treasury Secretary Janet L.
Garret Graves, R-La., said leaving Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office just before 7:30 p.m.
Garret Graves, R-La., one of McCarthy’s lead negotiators, said that while the venue is changing at the request of the White House, the message from Republican negotiators is the same.
McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters that the readout he’d gotten was "positive," though he wasn’t ready to say a deal was close.
Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., said negotiators were able to better explain to one another the policies they were fighting for or against, and they all agreed on the need to quickly secure a deal.
Garret Graves of Louisiana and Patrick T. McHenry of North Carolina for about two and a half hours Sunday night at the Capitol. They left without elaborating on where things stood.
Garret Graves, R-La., and House Financial Services Chairman Patrick T. McHenry, R-N.C., resumed talks at the Capitol shortly after 6 p.m.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., called the bill the "strongest border security package that Congress has ever taken up."
Fitzpatrick was also closely involved in negotiations that helped deliver Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the speaker’s gavel.
After all, he recently promised Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., they would treat one another with “respect.” He also needs GOP members to help him avert a first-ever national debt default.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger, R-Texas, Budget Chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, and Financial Services Chairman Patrick T.
Chip Roy, R-Texas, said Jan. 5, according to the Texas Tribune. How times have changed on the House side of the Capitol.
Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., gestures to Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., as members try to convince Gaetz to change his vote at the end of the failed 14th vote to elect a speaker late Friday night.
“This is a matter of the proper assurances to deliver a conservative agenda,” North Carolina Republican Patrick T. McHenry said. “My hope is that we show progress tonight.”