Inside the House GOP's speakership crisis

Jan 7 2023 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

When a motley crew of about a dozen House Republicans huddled in a first-floor Capitol suite three ballots into a speakership crisis, no one knew whether their colleagues would negotiate in good faith.

But as Rep. Kelly Armstrong described it, allies of now-Speaker Kevin McCarthy didn’t enter the room expecting a resolution that night. They simply wanted “a path of how to start,” the North Dakota Republican said.

Armstrong, who'd backed McCarthy critic Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas)...

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