A Republican lawmaker said some of his GOP colleagues have threatened “consequences” because he plans to support the Democrats’ rules package for the House.
Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., said he will back the new rules package because Democratic leaders included some reforms he has prioritized as co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus.
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Although he doesn’t support everything that appears in the new rules, Reed told the Washington Post that it is “a step in the right direction” and hopes to “show that it’s time for both sides of the aisle to set aside this partisanship and start working together.”
But some members of his own party have threatened “consequences,” Reed added, without naming names. “I won’t speak to that right now, because hopefully, there is reconsideration of it,” he said.
Reed’s vote for the Democrats’ rules would make him the first lawmaker to reach across the aisle to support an entire rules package since 2001.
