McCarthy, Dissidents Aim to Improve How the House Functions
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will meet with dissenting House Republicans to resolve concerns that erupted in a dissenting vote by 11 GOP members on a procedural issue on June 6.
At stake for both McCarthy and the dissenters is the ability of the House to function, especially in exercising one of its core constitutional duties, appropriating money for the federal government.
“We’re going to meet later today. Hopefully, [we’ll] get them all together there, and hopefully be able to do it,” McCarthy told reporters on June 12. “But if it takes me a day or two longer, I want to get it solved so it doesn’t keep erupting all the time.”…