They are adding an elected leadership position for an incoming freshman lawmaker and several senior GOP sources say they hope South Dakota's KristiNoem, who is interested, wins the slot.
But in a wide-ranging discussion with CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash, three members of the conservative Republican wave first elected in 2010 -- Gowdy, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Rep. KristiNoem of South Dakota -- insisted they'd like to find some issues to work on with the president and said Obama could make compromise more realistic by reaching out.