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McCarthy relents on key conservative demand — but uncertainty remains over speaker bid

 Kevin McCarthy has perhaps given the group of conservatives blocking him from becoming speaker his biggest concession to date. It's unclear though if it will be sufficient for him to clinch his gavel.


McCarthy and his team notified members in a lengthy conference call on Sunday that he would make it easier for rank-and-file members to try to remove a speaker who is currently in office, a step that some GOP legislators have warned might damage their leadership group. The new rule, which has long been a demand of the party's right flank, would empower five members of the House majority to initiate a vote of no confidence in their leader.

This adjustment is one of many that McCarthy's leadership team revealed for the GOP on Sunday night. Later this week, the GOP majority's first action will be to approve new rules. Republicans must first choose a speaker, and McCarthy's narrow margin for error has given many conservatives more confidence to press for reforms.


The increasing concentration of power among party leaders has "relegated members of both parties to the sidelines, with mammoth bills being drafted behind closed doors and rushed to the floor at the last minute for an up-or-down, take it or leave it to vote," McCarthy wrote in a letter to his members. "The simple fact is that Congress is broken and needs to change," McCarthy wrote.

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