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Omaha Steve

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Thu Jun 19, 2014, 08:35 AM Jun 2014

A divided House GOP ready to pick new leaders

Source: AP-EXCITE

By ALAN FRAM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Kevin McCarthy seems likely to inherit defeated Rep. Eric Cantor's No. 2 House Republican leadership job, but GOP restiveness along ideological and regional lines is on full display in a wide-open race for the party's next-ranking post of majority whip.

McCarthy, R-Calif., who has climbed quickly since arriving in Congress in 2007, seemed likely to become majority leader when House Republican lawmakers meet privately Thursday to elect their leadership lineup for the rest of this year.

"I have the courage to lead but the wisdom to listen," McCarthy, 49, told a reporter Wednesday. As the party's whip counter and the chief recruiter of 2010 candidates who helped the GOP capture House control that November, he said, "I understand people's frustrations."

Those frustrations seem plentiful as Republicans continue debating the meaning of Cantor's startling loss to a political neophyte last week in what was supposed to be a routine GOP primary in his Richmond, Virginia, area district. The next day, Cantor announced he would step down as majority leader on July 31, setting off the scramble for leadership jobs.

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Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, walks through a basement corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, to a meeting of the House Republican Conference where he and other candidates vying for House GOP leadership posts make their pitches to the rank-and-file in the tumultuous aftermath of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor{2019}s sudden loss last week in his Virginia primary race. Labrador is considered a longshot to take Cantor's place but House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is the strong favorite to become the new majority leader, an intense intramural clash has emerged for the whip post between Rep. Scalise, who runs a conservative faction of lawmakers in the Republican Study Committee, and Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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A divided House GOP ready to pick new leaders (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP
The GOP: Greatest FAIL on Earth BumRushDaShow Jun 2014 #1
Hope someone ordered a semi load of popcorn sarge43 Jun 2014 #2
Louie, Louie, Louie! For majority leader! I double dog dare them to crown Louie a majority leader! Exposethefrauds Jun 2014 #3
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