“I continue to have concerns with the inclusion of ‘pay-as-you-go’ or PAYGO, but I am pleased that Chairman McGovern and House Leadership have assured us that the rule will not be used to block key progressive priorities this Congress,” freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar said in a statement just before the vote Thursday evening.

The Minnesota Democrat’s statement echoed one Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Mark Pocan and Pramila Jayapal issued the day before. The duo also promised to introduce legislation to repeal the PAYGO statute, although it’s unclear if that’s something Democratic leadership would bring to the floor.

In an atypical move, three Republicans — Reps. Tom Reed and John Katko of New York and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania — voted for Democrats’ rules package. They did so because of changes the bipartisan Problems Solvers Caucus, of which they are members, pushed to help facilitate more two-party legislating. This was the first occasion since 2001 in which anyone from the minority party has voted for the majority party’s rules package.

“The reforms the Problem Solvers Caucus were able to get included in this rules package go a long way to empower the people we represent, enable rank-and-file Members to govern and make it easier for bipartisan bills to pass,” Reed, who co-chairs the caucus, said in a statement Wednesday announcing he’d support the package. “We are proud to walk the talk of reaching across the aisle to best serve the people who sent us here.”

One of the Problem Solvers’ negotiated provisions would create a consensus calendar for stalled bipartisan legislation — defined in the rules as bills that have at least 290 cosponsors but haven’t been reported out of committee — and require the House vote on at least one calendar item (if one exists) per week in session.