Majority like power? I think you are calculating wrong.

It gives leadership less power, and minority party more power but not FC majority power.

Have to remember that more than half the GOP caucus is relatively new. I think they just want to be able to do what they were elected to do, not be silent pawns in the hands of K-street

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)