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>> reporter: some of them absolutely are. behind the scenes they made some of these key decisions. two members in particular, michael cloud and andrew clyde. they unusually were two republicans who held out on kevin mccarthy. were told they will have a seat on the house appropriations committee. that funds the federal government. there are also other members as well. byron donalds who was nominated to run against mccarthy fell short of those votes and hell have a seat on the financial services c...

Assignments. michael cloud, andrew clyde, andy hairs, and andy ogles, birp donalds and ralph norman. so they will be service on the top tier "a" list committees. but there are more assignments to come including house rules, house judiciary, house armed services. we expect those decisions to be made in the coming days. the gop now facing more pressure to act on the controversial new york republican congressman george santos. what is the speaker, speaker mccarthy, saying about this? >> reporter: h...

About two months into his comeback bid, few prominent Texas Republicans have endorsed Trump — and some are showing more willingness to cross him publicly.

About two months into his comeback bid, few prominent Texas Republicans have endorsed Trump — and some are showing more willingness to cross him publicly.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy no doubt wants to punish Rep. Matt Gaetz and the rest of the "Tenacious 20" who nearly thwarted his bid to win the gavel, but instead of banishing the conservative rebels to the least-desirable committees or shutting them out of the Republican conference, he'll have to treat the rebel crew with extreme deference.

It was after midnight on January 7, that the 15th Round of voting elected a Republican Speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy with 216 votes.

There are set to be six men named Michael with committee gavels in the new GOP-led House, but just three women with the same power.

Texans help elect Kevin McCarthy speaker after dramatic late-night votes

California Republican Kevin McCarthy gained momentum on the fourth day of speaker elections and is inching closer to getting the votes to become the next speaker of the House.

California Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s campaign to become U.S. House speaker will stretch into at least Friday night.