During the past few weeks and recent days, the House Republican Conference has experienced a ripple of change in our congressional leadership, causing us to refocus the future of our party. In assessing a resolution to this situation, the answer is not merely to rearrange the faces of our leadership and expect that our problems will be solved. In fact, the answer is quite the contrary. Because there is a clamor across our nation for strong, conservative leadership, we need a fresh start, not just fresh faces.

We need to restore a legislative process where all members are included, where legislative ideas are debated and considered well in advance of deadlines, and where the American public can witness government in deliberation, not deadlock. In other words, we need to exercise what our Founding Fathers gave us: Regular order.