GOP Hard-Liners Angle for Plum Posts as Price of McCarthy Votes
- Key committee assignments become latest source of contention
- Gaetz says McCarthy solicited requests and then leaked list
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Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, who was among those who questioned whether the coronavirus originated in a lab in China, wants to chair a House Armed Services subcommittee. Maryland Republican Andy Harris, one of Congress’s most conspicuous opponents of abortion and recreational marijuana, wants the gavel of the Appropriations subcommittee on health and human services. And a freshman wants two A-list committee assignments.
These are just some of the latest demands from conservative hard-liners in exchange for their support of California Republican Kevin McCarthy to be the next speaker of the House, a person in the negotiations said on Wednesday.