October 5, 2023

Members of the GOP Conference

549 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Republican Colleagues:

Earlier this week, eight Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives joined in an alliance
with 208 Democrats to adopt a motion to vacate the Speaker of the House. That translates to less than 4
percent of our Republican Conference joining with all Democrats to override the will of the remaining 96
percent of House Republicans on one of the most consequential votes the House has taken in over a
century.

Worse still, just last Friday, seven of these eight individuals also joined with Democrats to defeat the
most conservative funding and border security package in history.

Despite just a four-seat majority and both a Democrat-controlled Senate and White House, Speaker
McCarthy has been one of the most accomplished Republican leaders in modern history. He has tirelessly
worked with all factions of our Conference to restore regular order, decentralize decision making, reopen the
People’s House, and achieve real results in a divided government on issues ranging from energy independence
and combatting crime to cutting out-of-control spending and securing our border.

Ashamed and embarrassed by what happened on the Floor this week, we refuse to allow the eight
members who abandoned and undermined our Conference to dictate every outcome in policy and personnel for
the remainder of this Congress, including the upcoming selection of the Speaker of the House.

As such, we, the undersigned, remain committed to the conservative and transparent objectives Speaker
McCarthy outlined at the outset of the 118th Congress. It is our responsibility to identify the right person at this
moment to lead us into the future to achieve the conservative policy objectives that we and the American people
all share. We cannot allow our majority to be dictated to by the alliance between the chaos caucus and the
minority party that will do nothing more than guarantee the failure of our next Speaker.

The injustice we all witnessed cannot go unaddressed—lest we bear responsibility for the consequences
that follow. Our Conference must address fundamental changes to the structure of our majority to ensure
success for the American people.
Sincerely,
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Kelly Armstrong Don Bacon

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Cliff Bentz Stephanie Bice

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Larry Bucshon, M.D. Ken Calvert

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Lori Chavez-DeRemer Juan Ciscomani

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Dan Crenshaw Anthony D'Esposito

Member of Congress Member of Congress
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John S. Duarte Chuck Edwards

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Brad Finstad Brian Fitzpatrick

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Andrew R. Garbarino Carlos A. Gimenez

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Jenniffer González-Colón Garret Graves

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Ashley Hinson Erin Houchin

Member of Congress Member of Congress
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Bill Johnson Dusty Johnson

Member of Congress Member of Congress

David P. Joyce Jen A. Kiggans

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Young Kim Nick LaLota

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Michael V. Lawler Laurel M. Lee

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Michael T. McCaul Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D.

Member of Congress Member of Congress
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Carol D. Miller Max L. Miller

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Blake D. Moore James C. Moylan

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Gregory F. Murphy, M.D. Dan Newhouse

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Aumua Amata Coleman David Rouzer

Radewagen Member of Congress
Member of Congress

John H. Rutherford María Elvira Salazar

Member of Congress Member of Congress
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Austin Scott Michael K. Simpson

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Jason Smith David G. Valadao

Member of Congress Member of Congress

Derrick Van Orden

Member of Congress