![]() ![]() McCARTHY’S MUDDLE - Five days out from the high-stakes speakership vote, House Republicans are starting to ask themselves two “what-if” questions surrounding KEVIN McCARTHY’s fate: 1) If the California Republican gets the gavel, how long will he be speaker? And, if he doesn’t, 2) how does he serve out his remaining days in Congress? “In those letters, obtained exclusively by POLITICO, Sauber described such requests as constitutionally illegitimate because both Jordan, who is expected to chair the House Judiciary Committee, and Comer, who is expected to head the Oversight Committee, made them before they had any authority to do so.” Read the Comer letter … Read the Jordan letter JAMES COMER (R-Ky.) and JIM JORDAN (R-Ohio), White House Special Counsel RICHARD SAUBER said that the Biden administration had no immediate plans to respond to a slew of records requests that both men made the past several weeks. ![]() The details: “In respective letters to Reps. THE NEW WASHINGTON ORDER - President JOE BIDEN’s administration is taking a shot across the bow of the incoming House Republican majority, our colleague Heidi Przybyla scoops this morning: A top White House lawyer told two key incoming chairs that their oversight demands would be disregarded unless and until their requests are resubmitted next year in the new Congress. | Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo DRIVING THE DAY Kevin McCarthy's bid for speaker is facing two big “what-if” questions five days away from a vote. ![]()
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