Tenney, who voted for McCarthy in each of the 15 roll call votes despite calls from a significant number of conservative voters to elect a non-establishment candidate, was disappointed that Republicans had to move on to a 15th vote - noting that McCarthy was supposedly guaranteed the vote during the 14th ballot but people didn’t “live up” to their “promises.” “It’s going to be interesting to see how much they try to play us and try to manipulate those rules to benefit them.” “We’re always going to be in this cloak-and-dagger situation where Democrats, who I consider to be much more diabolical when it comes to the rules, and Nancy Pelosi, who is - I think - an abuser of power to a level of never seen,” she said. The New York congresswoman went on to argue that Democrats are going to attempt to exploit the GOP and the new rules they insisted on. “It’s a high-risk operation for Kevin McCarthy, our new speaker because, for the first time, he’s going to be facing a very, very narrow majority with a rules package that is going to actually minimize the power of the speaker and it’s going to force us into consensus,” Tenney said. This led to a tense battle for the speaker’s gavel, with around 20 conservative holdouts refusing to support McCarthy without significant concessions such as a committee to investigate the politicization of the FBI, placing members of the House Freedom Caucus on the Rules Committee and the Appropriations Committee, allowing for any member to introduce a motion to hold a vote remove the speaker from his position and allowing at least 72 hours given for lawmakers to read bills before voting. Republicans have a slim majority in the House, with just 222 members to the Democrats’ 212. “We’re going to be in Washington a lot, and we’re going to be hashing this out because there are a lot of historic changes in a lot of these rules and what we’re going through.” “We’re never gonna get a perfect speaker we’re never going to get a perfect rules package and it’s going to look like this every single major vote that we have in the House, so get ready,” she said. Kevin McCarthy finally winning the Speaker vote after midnight on Saturday morning, Tenney discussed the drama that she predicts will continue to happen in the months to come. Following the intense drama that ultimately led to Rep.
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