“I am humbled by the many people who have approached me about serving our Republican Conference in a different capacity in the future,” Hensarling said in a statement provided to National Journal. “There are many ways to advance the causes of freedom and free enterprise, and I am prayerfully considering the best way I can serve in those efforts.”
According to several senior Republicans, Hensarling, the Financial Services Committee chairman, watched his in-box and cell phone explode Tuesday night with messages encouraging him to run for either speaker or majority leader. Some of the members reaching out were reiterating their support, one source said, but there were plenty of newcomers as well.
Hensarling, who served as Republican Conference chairman in the previous Congress, will meet today with some of his closest allies to game out the logistics of another leadership race.
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