Conservatives Want a Hillary Clinton Antagonist, Trey Gowdy, in House Leadership (HILLARY GRP)
WASHINGTON — House conservatives, fearful that the post-John A. Boehner era of leadership may look more like a modestly renovated old house than a newly built one, have begun to cast about for one of their own to join the upper ranks: the head of the committee that has been ripping into Hillary Rodham Clinton for well over a year.
While Representative Kevin McCarthy of California appears to have the momentum to become the next speaker of the House, the race for his current job, majority leader, has been thrown into a bit of chaos, with the only female candidate for the post withdrawing from consideration and an incipient grass-roots effort emerging to persuade Representative Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who has been leading the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email account as secretary of state, to step into the race....
So far Mr. Gowdy, who oversees the Select Committee on Benghazi — one of the longest-running Congressional investigations in history — has kept a low profile in the leadership race. “Chairman Gowdy is focused on the Benghazi Committee and will serve in that capacity so long as the committee exists,” said a spokeswoman, Amanda Duvall, notably not ruling the run out....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/politics/house-leadership-race.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur via NYTimes
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