Rep. Mike Rogers is preparing to step down from a powerful House Republican panel that decides committee assignments for conference members after a series of confrontations with conservatives who prolonged Kevin McCarthy’s speakership fight.
Rogers confirmed his plan to step down from the steering committee Monday morning, saying it would likely happen later this week. | Rod Lamkey/Getty Images
A longtime critic of certain conservative members, particularly the House Freedom Caucus, Rogers made his frustration plain on national TV late Friday night as McCarthy’s push for the top gavel faltered in the final moments of a dramatic 14th ballot. As the GOP leader fell one vote short of the speakership, Rogers approached Reps. Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert on the House floor — in what some viewed as a menacing manner — pointing in the conservative duo’s direction.
While Rogers advanced on Gaetz and Boebert, Rep. Richard Hudson grabbed the Alabamian from behind to pull him back, sparking worries a physical fight might have soon erupted on the floor if not for Hudson’s intervention. Nonetheless, Gaetz and Rogers appeared to have patched things up by Sunday. But that public moment wasn’t Rogers’ only high-profile confrontation with McCarthy’s foes during the speaker race. Earlier last week, he angrily vowed during a private conference meeting that any members who opposed the Californian’s bid for speaker would lose their committee assignments.
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