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Kevin McCarthy unveils House GOP's big ideas midterm election agenda - CBS News

Kevin McCarthy unveils House GOP's big ideas midterm election agenda - CBS News

Kevin McCarthy unveils House GOP's big ideas midterm election agenda - CBS News
Sep 24, 2022 2 mins, 35 secs

Republican leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled the Republican Party's midterm election agenda in Pennsylvania Friday, confronting President Biden and the party in power.

McCarthy, who is poised to seize the speaker's gavel if Republicans win control of the House in the fall, hopes to replicate the strategy former Speaker Newt Gingrich used to spark voter enthusiasm and sweep House control in a 1994 landslide.

"I want to win the majority so we can have a new plan and implement it," McCarthy told CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion, deferring a question about his political future.  "They'll make that decision after the election and whichever way it goes from that standpoint, it'll happen." .

"So, if you're like everybody else we hear, whether you can afford it, whether you feel safe, the challenge of your children getting lost behind, or a government that's run amuck," McCarthy told his enthusiastic audience.

The House GOP's "Commitment to America" gives a nod to that earlier era but updates it for Trump, with economic, border security and social policies to rouse the former president's deep well of supporters in often-forgotten regions like this rusty landscape outside Pittsburgh.

"We want an economy that is strong," McCarthy said.

On the first day of House GOP control, McCarthy vowed that Republicans would vote to nix 87,000 IRS agents, eliciting applause from the audience.

The House Republican leader stood alongside other GOP lawmakers to roll out the GOP agenda, offering a portrait of party unity despite the uneasy coalition that makes up the House minority — and the Republican Party itself.

He characterized McCarthy's "commitment to America" as "a thin series of policy goals, with little or no detail that he says Republicans are gonna pursue if they regain control of the Congress."   .

Propelled by Trump's "Make America Great Again" voters, Republicans need to pick up just a few seats to win back control of the narrowly split House, and replace Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"We want to compete everywhere from Rhode Island to Oregon, to California to Iowa and in between," McCarthy told Killion.

"House Republicans are really good at running people out of town," said Matt Schlapp, chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition, or CPAC.

McCarthy, first elected to office in 2006, is among the remaining political survivors of those House Republican battles.

"They talk about a lot of problems," said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland.

Along with many as five House seats Republicans believe they can pick up in Pennsylvania in November, the state has one of the most watched Senate races, between Democrat John Fetterman and Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, that will help determine control of Congress.

6 committee investigating the Capitol attack for an interview, was on hand Thursday in Washington, joining McCarthy as he unveiled the plans privately to House Republicans, who have been mixed on the approach.

Conservative Republicans complain privately that McCarthy isn't leaning hard enough into their priorities, as he tries to appeal to a broader swath of voters and hold the party together?

McCarthy alone has proposed a plan if Republicans win control of the House chamber

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