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Kevin McCarthy Is Pretty Good At This

Holding the coalition together and notching wins

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Ben Domenech
Apr 27, 2023
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Don’t look now, but Kevin McCarthy is turning out to be good at this job. First, an item from Politico on how the deal came together:

It started in late January, when a group of House and Senate conservatives gathered around Sen. Rick Scott’s dining room table to try to solve a seemingly impossible problem. Given McCarthy’s slim majority — and the realit…

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