In McCarthy Negotiations, GOP Landed On Most Significant Win’
Again, the version of McCarthy that would have taken the gavel had HFC not played hardball would already have constituted a win for them. But what they ended up getting became something much bigger.
Rep. Andrew Ogles provided a list of McCarthy s concessions to journalist Roger Simon, which is quoted in full below:
- As has been reported, it will only take a single congressperson, acting in what is known as a Jeffersonian Motion, to move to remove the speaker if he or she goes back on their word or policy agenda.
- A Church -style committee will be convened to look into the weaponization of the FBI and other government organizations (presumably the CIA, the subject of the original Church Committee) against the American people.
- Term limits will be put up for a vote.
- Bills presented to Congress will be single subject, not omnibus with all the attendant earmarks, and there will be a 72-hour minimum period to read them.
- The Texas Border Plan will be put before Congress. From The Hill: The four-pronged plan aims to Complete Physical Border Infrastructure, Fix Border Enforcement Policies, Enforce our Laws in the Interior and Target Cartels & Criminal Organizations.
- COVID mandates will be ended, as will all funding for them, including so-called emergency funding.
- Budget bills would stop the endless increases in the debt ceiling and hold the Senate accountable for the same.
This is all great. We wait in some anticipation to see what sticks. 1.5 cheers.