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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: txradioguy on June 24, 2015, 12:52:50 PM
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Conservative lawmakers serving as subcommittee chairmen are finding themselves on the receiving end of retribution from House leadership for defying party leaders.
Last week, 34 Republicans broke from their party in voting against a routine procedural rule that would have advanced Trade Promotion Authority. Since then, GOP leadership has come down hard on those members, removing some from the leadership team and threatening others with losing subcommittee chairmanships.
This show of force from leadership has angered conservative lawmakers and members of the House Freedom Caucus, who are speaking out against the “culture of punishment and fear†that’s emerged during John Boehner’s tenure as speaker.
“Conservatives are frustrated that they are being punished for voting their conscience after countless efforts to work openly with leadership were stonewalled,†a conservative staffer in the House told The Daily Signal.
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., was removed from his role as chairman of the Government Operations subcommittee. As The Daily Signal previously reported, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, approached Meadows last week and presented him with two options: resign as chairman or be booted from the role.
Meadows, though, isn’t the only subcommittee chairman to be approached by committee heads following their vote against the procedural vote.
A second Republican staffer told The Daily Signal at least one other conservative member has met with the chairman of the member’s full committee, where the topic of the procedural vote came up. The meeting, though, did not result in the loss of the chairmanship.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/06/23/gop-leadership-threatens-other-conservative-subcommittee-chairman-as-punishment-for-trade-vote/
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Business as usual.
The Republican elite class and chief RINOs flex their muscles.
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Business as usual.
The Republican elite class and chief RINOs flex their muscles.
Boehner and the rest of the RINO's just need to go back to calling themselves the Whig Party and let the Conservatives that best represent what being a Republican stands for represent the GOP.
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, approached Meadows last week and presented him with two options: resign as chairman or be booted from the role.
And I thought Chaffetz was a conservative.
My Senator Toomey and my Rep Mike Fitzpatrick are just democrats in conservative clothing. :censored:
" In the wake of the Charleston shooting, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are considering ways to renew their failed push to expand meaningful(sic) background checks on gun purchases. "
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Chaffetz pulled an Ayotte and pretended to be a Conservative to get the TEA Party vote.
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Boehner's just gearing up.
"The latest victim is Colorado Rep. Ken Buck, who could be stripped of his title as GOP freshman class president on Thursday morning."
"Three members of that caucus have been booted from the whip team, and another was stripped of his subcommittee gavel. Buck, meanwhile, faces being ousted as head of the freshman class just months after being elected to that position by his peers."
Boehner: "We are in the majority. Part of being in the majority is advancing an agenda — a conservative agenda."
Hey, John, not even close. Look yourself in the mirror & say....I am a liberal. Obama is my King. I want to advance the progressive agenda.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/246080-boehner-doles-out-new-punishment