The appointment of certain Republicans to the House Rules Committee could lead to dissent within the GOP as legislation is expected to be debated in the most transparent manner in years.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy appointed five new members to the committee on Monday, including two Republicans—Chip Roy and Ralph Norman—who are Freedom Caucus members who openly disavowed his speakership during the majority of his strenuous 15-vote saga.
Along with Roy and Norman, new GOP members include Representatives Thomas Massie, Erin Houchin and Nick Langworthy. They join existing GOP members Michael Burgess, Guy Reschenthaler, Michelle Fischbach and Tom Cole.
“I am delighted to welcome a diverse slate of Republican members to the House Rules Committee,” said Cole, the committee chair, in a statement. “Between our returning members and those joining the panel for the first time, each has an important role to play and brings valuable perspective.”
The Texas Republican Roy voted against McCarthy 11 times, instead favoring Florida Representative Byron Donalds.
The Hill reported that Roy’s secured concessions in holding out against McCarthy led to the single-member motion to vacate the chair, the 72-hour rule to consider a bill, banning House GOP leadership and affiliated PACs from getting involved in open-seat primaries, increasing the number of Freedom Caucus members on the House Rules Committee, and creating a committee to target “weaponized government.”
“My colleagues and I worked hard to secure institutional changes to the rules of this body to empower rank-and-file members, allow members to hold leadership accountable, and to confront the business-as-usual practices that are destroying our Republic,” Roy said in a statement January 10 following the passing of reforms to House procedure.
“From the outset of this process, we set out to get the tools necessary to protect the American people from the machinations of this godforsaken town; that’s what we got,” he added.
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