GOP Says McCarthy is Ready to Rise

December 1, 2008, 5:45 p.m.

The ascension of newly minted House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Chief Deputy Minority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to the upper tier of GOP leadership represents a changing of the guard within the Conference and a potential shift away from a top-down control that characterized whip teams of the past.

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