Last November, Kevin McCarthy dialed up his longtime rival Jim Jordan and made a surprising overture: I want you to run for the top GOP spot on the House Oversight Committee.

Jordan, who was working out at the members-only gym at the time, had just lost a challenge to McCarthy to be minority leader, and had spent years tormenting the California Republican after co-founding the hard-line House Freedom Caucus.

But as House Republicans prepared to pick their new committee leaders, McCarthy was...

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