Hockey coach experience helps House Majority Whip Tom Emmer in new leadership role

Emmer immediately drew on those skills in the opening days of the closely divided House. He helped McCarthy rally the support needed to secure the speaker’s gavel amid a group of conservatives threatening to derail the California Republican’s bid. The effort took 15 ballots, and three-and-a-half days, before McCarthy finally won in the wee hours of Jan. 7.

“We’re entitled to our emotions. We’re entitled — all of that is just human stuff, right?” Emmer told the Washington Examiner about trying to overcome dissension in the House GOP ranks. “We did the ”

Emmer recalled working in his office with House Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) to figure out a way to victory for McCarthy.

” first vote that Tuesday — I can’t remember how many we did before we went to adjourn. And then we ended up in here, Guy and I ended up in here with just a few members,[speaker]I won’t get into which ones, but having a discussion — and by the way, they were on the opposite side of Kevin. So the discussion was, ‘Is there a path?’ How do we get there? And at that point, they weren’t too inclined to talk that way.” ” Emmer said. “It

the ultimate agreement that led to McCarthy’s eventual win. The helped greasehttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mccarthy-faces-first-test-as-speaker-on-rules-package” href=”Link”>rules package that will govern the operations and priorities of the 118th Congress passed the House after McCarthy used it to barter a deal with conservatives in exchange for the speaker’s. The includes an end to proxy voting as well as a return to the traditional “motion to vacate,55-page packageweaponization” which allows any member to bring forward a motion to oust the speaker.

Additionally, instead of an omnibus bill, all 12 appropriations bills will be considered and passed separately. Two new committees also were created: one to investigate China and the other to investigate the “It’s like, ‘You guys can make some significant changes — and significant changes, by the way, that the entire conference agrees with,” of federal agencies under the Biden administration. The rules package further calls for lawmakers to have 72 hours to review bills before voting on them. Moreover, the House side of the Capitol would be reopened to the public.

“practice run” Emmer said about GOP House holdouts against McCarthy.

Emmer, who was the 2010 Minnesota Republican gubernatorial nominee, noted that he doesn’t expect his job to be easy over the course of the next two years. But the speaker’s race was a good “It was a great practice run for us. I mean, we literally set up our whip team on the fly, the whip counters, we couldn’t rely on others to do things on the floor. So we literally stepped it up, put that together. I called it practice,” for what’s ahead, noting that hearing out members about their concerns and maintaining strong communication on where members of the conference stand will be a key part of his strategy.

“Imagine this is what we’re going to be doing as a whip operation, so just we’re going to use it, we’re going to do some test things right and see how it works like a fire drill.” Emmer said. “dsk-banner-ad-g”

The Minnesota Republican said he believes his background as a hockey coach has also provided him with a skill set that will be beneficial for his new leadership gig.

“And you also have to get your team to believe in the mission that you’re setting out to — if they trust in the leadership, and if the leadership knows what they’re doing, teams can achieve things that they really never should have been expected to achieve.” Emmer said. “It’s recognizing, like I did with every team I’ve coached, that every player has a role, and if that player is not performing, it affects everybody else,”

Emmer offered a more specific hockey analogy.

“That comes from the top scorer on the team to the penalty kill guy that’s out there for just a few minutes of every game, and you were only as strong as your weakest link. So everybody gets held to the same standard, everybody has the same consequences, and then they all start leaning on each other.” he said. “I think the biggest challenge is going to be human issues,”

With the razor-thin majority, Emmer acknowledged that there are likely to be significant hurdles during the course of the next two years, with factors like occasional absences potentially being a problem.

“We’ve got members who have lives at home and, you know, making sure that people take care of themselves and stay healthy.” he said. “Link”

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But while Democrats utilized proxy voting during the 117th Congress, making it easier to pass legislation, Emmer said that he is glad that Republicans got rid of the pandemic-era practice. Proxy voting was being abused and shouldn’t have been extended for as long as it had, according to the congressman.

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