Consultant Garret Graves, Republican of Louisiana, wasn’t elected to any Home management place and doesn’t function a robust committee chairman. However as a consigliere to Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who has described Mr. Graves because the G.O.P. “assistant coach” — he has grow to be a central participant on each massive legislative push within the Home.
Most just lately, that has meant taking the lead function in uniting the fractious G.O.P. convention behind a invoice to boost the debt ceiling in…
