Rep. Tenney to Newsmax: House Rules Package Will Be Worth Speaker Wait
January 7, 2023 | District of Columbia, New York
Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y. doesn’t anticipate the House speaker election standoff going past the late hours of Friday night — after 15 former GOP holdouts flipped their votes to Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. earlier in the day.
Plus, there’s the expectation of Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas and Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo. —who were reportedly absent during the Friday matinée votes — siding with McCarthy, who fell just four votes shy of collecting the 218 House votes required to clinch the speakership.
“If we can get two of those [six remaining GOP holdouts] to flip, we’ll have a speaker, we’ll get sworn in, and we’ll get right into the [House] rules package,” Tenney told Newsmax Friday evening, while appearing on “Rob Schmitt Tonight.” “This is a really good rules package,” continued Tenney, “and it’s good that we negotiated this for our system of government, and it’s great for the American people. … If we’re going to have self-government, we’ve got to show this” to the public…. (Excerpt from Newsmax)
