Article snippet: House Republicans are reveling in the messy fight for Speaker that is taking place across the aisle. A few years ago, it was a band of conservative bomb-throwers who sparked chaos in their conference with their repeated attempts to oust then-Speaker MORE (R-Ohio). Now the tables have turned as a group of Democratic insurgents try to deny House Minority Leader MORE (D-Calif.) from reclaiming the Speaker’s gavel, even after she helped return her party to power for the first time since 2010. “For those asking, Moulton is NOT on our payroll,” joked National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spokesman Matt Gorman on Twitter last week, referring to Rep. MORE (D-Mass.), one of the most vocal Pelosi critics. Frustrated rank-and-file members have long been clamoring for change in the party’s entrenched leadership ranks, where the top three Democrats have held a firm grip on power for more than a decade. Unlike Republicans, House Democrats do not have term limits on chairmanships, which has contributed to a bottleneck in the conference. A band of anti-Pelosi rebels has been plotting ways to take down Pelosi, including trying to recruit a candidate to challenge her for the Speaker’s gavel. The group released a letter Monday containing 16 Democratic signatures vowing to oppose Pelosi in both the closed-door caucus vote and on the House floor. But Pelosi has been picking off her detractors one-by-one, including Rep. MORE (D-N.Y.), who was one of the original rebel let... Link to the full article to read more