Mistake.
Rules members need to be loyal to the speaker. Those should be party line votes. Where is the WHIP?
“Despite private pressure from centrists, Speaker Johnson said he would not remove three conservative hardliners from the powerful Rules Committee, where they’ve heavily impeded getting GOP bills to the floor.”
Politico title: “How McConnell and Schumer beat hardline conservatives on Ukraine”
Why do they insist on calling these people conservatives instead of isolationists?
They aren’t conservatives.