McCarthy ally will no longer head leadership committee under Johnson’s speakership
Reese Gorman
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will run the House Elected Leadership Committee and will eliminate the chairmanship role, the Washington Examiner learned Monday.
The shake-up is the latest example of Johnson making leadership moves in his two weeks on the job, succeeding Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who was ousted on Oct. 3 by a small group of GOP rebels.
Under McCarthy, the Elected Leadership Committee was led by Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), who was not in elected leadership. However, Graves, a staunch ally of McCarthy, was tasked with leading the meetings and acted as the point man for the former speaker.
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But now, under Johnson, that position will cease to exist, and the Elected Leadership Committee meetings will be run by the speaker, according to a source with direct knowledge of the plan.
Prior to this Congress, the role of head of the Elected Leadership Committee, an ad-hoc position, had not been filled in more than a decade. Before McCarthy appointed Graves, the last person to hold the position was then-Rep. Greg Walden, who was appointed by then-Speaker John Boehner.