forward. it is good to see you. thank you. and joining me now is charlie dent. so this immediate issue at hand is this house rules package. agreed to by kevin mccarthy will be voted on today by the whole the whole group. some republicans as manu was alluding to, they ve described what has been agreed to which we don t know all of the contours of it. it will tie up m mccarthy and t gop, other republicans are not so concerned about it. which is it, do you think? well first let me say, i think as surrendering your way to victory really winning and that is what happened here. i think far too many concessions were made to the hardliners on vacating the chair, promising the freedom caucus seats on the rules committee and capping spending at 2022 levels and the debt ceiling provision about tieing it to spending cuts. some of these relate to the rules like vacating the chair.
representative nancy mace who you know just yesterday was still on the fence on this house rules package. i just spoke to her. she told me now she s leaning towards voting for it. he supporting the package. what she doesn t support are the side deals that kevin mccarthy made with some of his opponents to get to this point. here s a look at his concessions we ve been talking about. first of all, an open amendment process, 72 hours to read bills a vote on term limits. these are all things that most of the conference agrees upon. the most controversial is lowering the threshold for a motion to vacate to a single member, which is worrying some folks out there like congressman tony gonzales who is a hard no as of right now on this rules package. and gop whip tom emmer who is
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is set to face the first test of his new leadership as House lawmakers prepare to vote on the lower chamber’s rules package a source of contention that led to McCarthy’s struggle to secure the speakership last week.
on monday, when they have to vote on a house rules package. eva mckend, cnn, washington. now, in eve have a s report there you saw one of the most memorable and quite frankly disturbing images from last night s chaotic floor fight and that happened after matt gaetz humiliated mccarthy with a vote that cost the speaker a win in the 14th round. mccarthy and his allies had believed that the votes were there and they were furious when gaetz cast the losing vote. mike rogers, a mccarthy supporter, had to be restrained, that s what you see there, as he moved angrily towards gaetz while mccarthy walked away clearly dejected. look at his face. republican tim burchett recounts what happened. mike is a friend of mine, came by and said some things, probably in haste, as a lot of