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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Kevin McCarthy faces his first test speaker, the house as he tries to pass a rules package on Monday evening based on his deal with Republican rebels that was needed to get the votes to become speaker early Saturday morning.

What are the consequences of that deal going forward?

Plus Joe Biden visits the southern border for the first time of his presidency and then goes to Mexico City for a meeting with the heads of Mexico and Canada.

Was that border visit all for show or could something come out of this that changes policy?

Welcome. I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal editorial page and here with my colleagues Kim Strassel and Kate Bacheldor O'Dell.

Welcome to you both.

So let's talk first about the fallout from the McCarthy mellow drama in the wee hours of Saturday.

I stayed up late to watch it and I think I got my fill of CNN for probably the next decade or two.

I had to update the editorial for online readers. So that was my fate in the evening.

But you know, watching CNN was fascinating. You think that this was the equivalent of Preston Brooks, Caning, Charles Sumner on the Senate floor in 1856 with the showdown verbal between Mike Rogers and Matt Gates. They both since calm down and said there's no big deal.

I thought him that Kevin McCarthy give a fine speech. Now he said this is going to be good for Republicans because they've learned how to govern. You agree with that?

I do not. That is the hopeful way of looking at it. You've heard a number of Republicans say this look we got out all of our anger and we're past all that and now we can unite and we figured out how to work together.

But you mentioned that the next big test is that they have this rules committee package that they need to vote on the operating rules of the house.

And we already have some moderates who are out there saying there's still not convinced they're going to vote for it that they think that Kevin McCarthy gave too much away to hardliners in the party.

They don't like some of the changes Tony Gonzalez from Texas and Nancy Maes from South Carolina both told CBS this weekend that they have concerns with it.

So we will see if they really have learned how to work together. That will be one big test. There's also a number of elections that are about to be held for prominent positions.

We'll see what kind of inviting goes on there as well too, but I think it's a little bit of wishful thinking.

When you say elections for a prominent position, you mean this is the steering committee choices for who will run committees and subcommittees basically correct and there's sort of four big committees where there are contestants.

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