House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves is seeking a waiver to remain the panel’s top Republican, setting up a race against the panel’s second-most senior Republican, Rep. Rick Crawford, who is expected to announce his bid this week, according to sources familiar with their plans.
Graves, R-Mo., has been privately discussing a bid to ask the Republican Steering Committee for a waiver from the conference’s term length rules, which limits members to six years as chairman or ranking member of a committee, multiple sources confirmed.
Now in his second year as committee chairman, with four previous years as ranking member behind him, Graves would need this waiver to maintain his position.
