conservative republicans were outspoken about the fact that they were not going to vote yes on getting this rule to the floor, it was a big enough priority for democrats that all four of the democrats on that rules committee banded together and in rare fashion helped to pass this rule out of that committee, and on to the house floor, again, a reminder of the way this houseworks and the reminder of the way that republicans are effectively bucking their leadership in plain sight. what that vote is going to lead to, though, and we heard murmurs of this already before it even happened was many disgruntled republican members saying that if there are members on the rules committee who can't seem to vote with leadership and vote with the majority of this conference, then they should be taken off that committee. the three members we're talking about here are ones that we talked about a lot during the motion to vacate of speaker mccarthy and even during his multiple balloting rounds at the start of this congress, they negotiated those seats on that all powerful committee for