Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is deploying the cherished Washington, D.C., ritual of a big bucks fundraiser to burnish the Republican Party’s troubled relations with women and get more GOP women elected to the House. House Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, R-Washington. They are coming Tuesday night to raise money for Republican women candidates at posh Washington, D.C., fundraiser.