Speaker Kevin McCarthy issued the new GOP roster for the House Rules
Committee Monday, and he made good on his pledges to give his
conference’s hard right a foothold on the powerful panel, naming Reps.
Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) to
the powerful gatekeeping panel. Norman and Roy were among the cadre
initially opposing McCarthy’s speaker bid, and Massie is — how to put
it? — a real pain in leadership’s ass.

And our colleagues Ally Mutnick and Sarah Ferris have an exclusive
report on the rift that is splitting the influential Blue Dog Coalition
nearly in half following an internal dispute over whether to rebrand the
moderate Democratic group. Seven of the 15 members, including Reps.
Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Mikie Sherill (D-N.J.), are on their way
out, which will leave the group with only men as its members and the
smallest roster in decades.

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