All eight members of GOP leadership in the House of Representatives will stand for reelection in front of their peers on November 15th, just a week after the midterm elections. The Hill reports:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has set the date for GOP lawmakers to elect their leaders for the next Congress, Republican aides said yesterday.

The Speaker and other GOP leaders have scheduled an organizing conference for Wednesday, Nov. 15, the week Congress resumes after the hotly contested midterm election.

The elected leaders made their decision earlier this week after wavering on the date of the post-election contest in the face of a potentially devastating midterm, even though the conference was already scheduled to meet that Wednesday.

Yesterday Congressman John Shadegg told me that it was likely that some of the positions in leadership would be up for grabs no matter what the outcome of the election. In the next sentence he praised Majority Leader John Boehner and said that were it not for Boehner’s influence in GOP leadership the marginal successes that conservatives have had (like earmark reform) would not have taken place. Shadegg was a challenger to Boehner during the most recent round of leadership elections. But it appears that Boehner has solidified support amongst conservatives like Shadegg.

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