GOP Whip Tom Emmer 'surprised' by gas stove rebellion, talks ongoing to advance ... trends now
House GOP Whip Tom Emmer admitted he was caught off guard Tuesday when 11 conservatives thwarted a typically mundane procedural vote to stop the Biden administration regulating gas stoves - in their latest uprising against leadership.
'That was spontaneous,' Emmer, R-Minn., told DailyMail.com of the group of rebels' latest scheme to express their anger over Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The kitchen appliance once again found itself caught in the middle American politics when members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus decided to torch Speaker Kevin McCarthy's plans to move forward with four bills to prevent the Biden administration from regulating gas stoves.
Eleven of them voted 'no' on the rule, making for the first time a procedural vote had failed this way in two decades. The group of rebels would have likely voted in favor of the bills, but opted to protest instead.
'That was spontaneous,' House GOP Whip Tom Emmer, told DailyMail.com of the 11 'no' votes on the rule to advance gas stove legislation
The procedural vote failed 206 to 220, with all Democrats opposing.
The House will vote again on the rule on Wednesday. Asked if it would pass this time around, Emmer said: 'It's gonna take some more discussion.'
The House was originally slated to vote on the rule Wednesday at 12:20 p.m., but that vote was delayed and it's now unclear when it will be brought back up before the full House.
'McCarthy lied, the rule died,' Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., wrote on Twitter after Tuesday's vote.
'House Leadership couldn't Hold the Line,' Gaetz tweeted Wednesday ahead of the second rule vote. 'Now we Hold the Floor.'
Members of the Freedom Caucus, together with conservative ally Matt Gaetz, aired grievances with Republican leadership -- specifically the claim that Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., had been retaliated against for voting 'no' on the Biden-McCarthy debt limit deal.
Majority Leader Steve Scalise denied that he'd held Clyde's bill hostage because of his opposition to the debt limit deal.
'The problem's been with the vote count,' Scalise insisted. 'There are some members that aren't there yet, and we're working on getting those members there.'
Emmer, a long-time hockey coach with a knack for sports analogies, said he wasn't aware of any sort of threat if there was one, and he'd long predicted growing pains within the new Republican majority.
'This team was extremely successful and has been for the first five months doing things that people never thought possible, he said. 'But I said for the last five
