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The Daily Punch

The House GOP’s committee scramble

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Anna breaks down the committee chair landscape for House Republicans. With six-year term limits, things can get interesting. PLUS: The NRCC outraised the DCCC in May. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bull News. It's Thursday, June 20th, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got a deep dive into what Republican committee leadership could look like next year. Number two, some news. The NRCC outraises the D-Trip

1:01.5

for the first time this year. And number three, what's ahead in the Senate before the Republican

1:07.3

Convention? All right, let's get to it. Of course, power in Washington is everything.

1:15.2

It's something that Punchball News focuses a lot on. And this morning, we're looking at the House

1:21.0

GOPs committee scramble. Recently, we examined the landscape for committee chairs. If Democrats

1:26.4

take the House, this morning, we're talking landscape for committee chairs. If Democrats take the House,

1:33.5

this morning, we're talking about what happens for Republicans. House Republicans have six-year term limits for their committee chairs, which includes time spent as ranking member

1:38.6

in the minority. So certainly there are advantages and disadvantages to this approach.

1:44.3

Republicans like it because it means that you're not going to have the same person

1:47.7

sitting atop a committee for dozens of years, but it can be a disadvantage, being that committee

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chairs only have six years to get things done.

1:57.3

We're going to focus today on the committees that are or could turn over next year first of all

2:03.8

really important committee the rules committee like the house intel committee it's a speaker

2:08.5

appointed panel that includes who gets to serve as chair there has been a bit of a handing of

2:15.7

the gavel here for republicans now, Representative Michael Burgess,

2:21.4

is the chair who he stepped in for Representative Tom Cole, who ran the panel before taking

2:26.6

the appropriations gavel after Representative Kay Granger stepped down from the post.

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