Rep. Kevin McCarthy, who is less than three years removed from serving as Assembly Republican leader in California, has been tapped as chief deputy whip for House Republicans in Washington D.C.
McCarthy's appointment by Rep. Eric Cantor, the number two Republican in Congress, cements the Bakersfield Republican's meteoric rise to power in the nation's capital.
Roll Call, the D.C. insider publication, calls McCarthy's appointment "a changing of the guard" within the Republican conference.
McCarthy started his career as an aide to former Rep. Bill Thomas, the Bakersfield Republican who once chaired the influential Ways and Means Committee.
McCarthy is 43 years old.
Photo: Then-Assembly Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, talks to the media in 2005. Credit: Sacramento Bee/ Brian Baer
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