Conservative Republicans and McCarthy have not worked concessions to resume passing legislation

The House remains at a standstill with no progress made over the weekend on the stalemate that has prevented legislation from moving since Wednesday. 

Three GOP aides to lawmakers involved in the blockade confirmed they had not heard from Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend and were waiting to hear what he would offer them in exchange for allowing votes to move forward. 

McCarthy sent lawmakers home early last week when 11 hardline conservatives tanked a normally mundane rule vote to move gas stove legislation forward. Many of the 11 said they would continue to block all legislation from advancing in the House until they secured written commitments from the speaker. 

But leadership clearly assumes the kerfuffle will be resolved this week, teeing up more votes this week with a Rules Committee meeting Monday evening. The full House is scheduled to vote at 6:30 p.m. on a motion to reconsider the rule for the gas stove bills. 

If that passes, the House can move forward with a final vote on the four pieces of legislation aimed at preventing the Biden administration from restricting gas stoves. 

Three GOP aides to lawmakers involved in the blockade confirmed they had not heard from Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend and were waiting to hear what he would offer them in exchange for allowing votes to move forward

McCarthy sent lawmakers home early last week when 11 hardline conservatives tanked a normally mundane rule vote to move gas stove legislation forward

The Rules Committee is set to prepare five bills for the House floor, including Rep. Andrew Clyde's resolution to rescind a Biden administration pistol brace rule. 

Clyde claimed leadership had threatened to prevent the resolution from moving to the House floor if he voted no on the rule to advance the Fiscal Responsibility Act, the negotiated debt limit deal. Now, the pistol brace resolution is set for a full House vote on Tuesday. 

The group's exact demands have been hard to define, but they were seething over the deal negotiated between McCarthy and President Biden that passed the House earlier this month. 

Some say they would be happy with a commitment to cap spending at fiscal year 2022 levels during the appropriations process, where the House hopes to pass 12 separate spending bills.

A 2022 cap was part of the House GOP's Limit Save Grow Act, but the final deal left non-defense discretionary spending at 2023 levels in 2024. 

Others, like Rep. Lauren Boebert, complained that leadership did not allow the debt ceiling deal to come to the floor under open rule - meaning rank-and-file members were not allowed to put amendments up for a vote. Some members said McCarthy promised them he would bring forth all legislation under open rule. 

Others were upset that more Democrats had voted for the final package than Republicans, 171 versus 149 - and claimed McCarthy had promised not to bring legislation to the floor that would have more Democrat votes than Republican.  The speaker however touted that two thirds of the Republican conference backed the bill. 

McCarthy made a number of backroom promises to Freedom Caucus members who opposed his speakership during the 15-ballot process that got him the gavel. Those promises, however, were not written down, and it's not clear what commitments McCarthy did and did not make.  

Some are demanding a commitment to stop spending on programs whose authorizations have expired. 

'We have 11,118 programs, OK, 11,118 programs that are unauthorized in the federal government… It means when they passed a program like the Endangered Species Act of 1973, it had a five-year sunset on it. It went down, finished, over in five years unless it was reauthorized. So in 1978, it was reauthorized. It has not been reauthorized since, and every year we increase the spending to the Endangered Species Act,' Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said in a speech over the weekend. 

If House Republicans can work through the intra-party squabble, they'll move forward not only on bills preventing the Biden administration from regulating gas stoves and pistol braces but also the anti-regulation REINS Act and the Separation of Powers Restoration Act, designed to limit the authority of federal agencies.