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Compromise on vacate the chair
A major issue for those withholding support or opposing McCarthy for Speaker of the House has been restoring any member’s ability to make a move to “vacate the chair,” which would force a vote on removing the Speaker. 
The procedural move, which conservatives say is a check on the Speaker’s power, made headlines when then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) made the motion in 2015, contributing to a House Freedom Caucus rebellion that ended in former GOP Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) resigning from Congress later that year. But when House Democrats took the majority, they allowed only the party leaders to make the motion.
House Republicans adopted a rule that allows the motion to be brought up if half the conference agrees, but McCarthy detractors want the required number to be lower.
After many negotiations, the proposed GOP rules package lowers the threshold to bring up the move to five GOP members.
Perry, though, expressed disappointment at the proposal.
“Leaders like [former GOP Speakers] Paul Ryan [Wis.] and John Boehner, and everyone before them, were fine to work under those provisions. And now, suddenly, in 2022, the guy that wants to be Speaker wants to double down on what [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi [D-Calif.] put in place and actually make it less accountable than even she did,” Perry said. “That doesn’t seem to be indicative of unity, and it doesn’t seem to be indicative of a person that’s asking his detractors to trust him.”
Select panels to target Biden administration, COVID origins, China
Republicans will bring a vote to form a select subcommittee on the “Weaponization of the Federal Government” under the House Judiciary Committee.
The creation of the select subcommittee is a response to a request from GOP members who have withheld support for McCarthy to form a “Church-style” committee to investigate alleged government abuses, in reference to a 1975 Senate select committee named for former Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) that investigated intelligence agencies.
In his letter to colleagues, McCarthy used the same language, praising creation of a “Church-style Select Committee focused exclusively on exposing the weaponization of government against our citizenry, writ large.”
The committee is expected to have the same general structure as typical select committees, which means it has no individual subpoena authority itself. But the full Judiciary Committee, to be chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), does have subpoena authority and is expected to aggressively target the Biden administration.
Republicans are also keeping the select committee on the coronavirus pandemic under the House Oversight and Reform Committee but changing its charter to focus on the origins of the virus as well as the impacts of shutdowns. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) is set to be chair of the full Oversight and Reform Committee.
Republicans are also set to vote in the first two weeks of the congressional session to create the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. McCarthy has announced Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) as his pick to chair the panel.