With numerous national outlets reporting that California Congressman Kevin McCarthy had made a series of concessions to far-right opponents in an effort to win their vote for House speaker, Alabama’s senior congressman expressed concern over those concessions.

U.S. Rep. Robert Aderholt of Haleyville questioned undermining the significance of seniority in the House. McCarthy has reportedly agreed to promising additional seats to the far-right group on the House Rules Committee, which influences which bills come to the House floor for votes.

“As far as skipping over people’s seniority, I think that’s where you’re, I think we’ve gone too far,” Aderholt said, according to a tweet Thursday by Sarah Ferris, a congressional reporter for Politico.

Ferris also tweeted Aderholt may be in line to chair the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. And that gavel may be in jeopardy due to McCarthy deal to win opposition votes with Maryland Congressman Andy Harris pushing for the subcommittee chair, Ferris tweeted.

Still, as a seventh round of voting began shortly before noon Thursday, Aderholt as well as the rest of Alabama’s Republican delegation – Jerry Carl, Barry Moore, Gary Palmer, Mike Rogers and Dale Strong — supported McCarthy as they did through the first six votes.

McCarthy still fell short for the seventh time to be elected speaker with 201 votes. Democrat Hakeem Jeffries, for the seventh straight vote, received the most votes at 211 but still short of the 218 votes needed for a majority. Rep. Terri Sewell, Alabama’s lone Democrat in the House, voted for Jeffries.

Sewell blasted House Republicans on Wednesday for failing to elect a speaker despite holding a majority.

Byron Donalds of Florida, the candidate of the far-right group opposing McCarthy, received 19 votes.

Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, part of the group against a McCarthy speakership, cast his vote Thursday for former President Donald Trump. The House speaker does not have to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

An eighth vote, if not more, will be required to elect a speaker. It’s the first time in 100 years more than one vote has been needed to elect a House speaker.

Aderholt will begin his 14th term in office once a speaker is elected and members are formally sworn in. His 26 years in the House make him Alabama’s most senior member of Congress with the retirement of Sen. Richard Shelby. He most recently served as the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee.

Other Alabama congressman in leadership positions include Rogers, who was the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and Palmer, who was chair of the House Republican Policy Committee.