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12-10-2012, 10:08 PM
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Conservative members say before a few colleagues were removed, no one was aware such a "scorecard" existed.
"Not only do I deserve answers... my colleagues who have been safe so far should know to how they can avoid retribution in the future," Huelskamp told U.S. News. "After all, the entire GOP conference was warned last week that leadership is watching their votes as well."
While only four members were directly affected by committee rearranging, the expulsions could have a ripple affect on the impending fiscal cliff negotiations.
The committee drama has left some conservative members with less incentive to vote with leadership on a plan to avoid the $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts slated to go into effect in 2013.
"The issue of losing committee assignments is still being worked out, and it has really soured the milk here," Huelskamp says. "If they come to conservatives with some plan that raises taxes; it won't be easy to get it through. There is strong opposition to where they are headed."
Amash says Boehner is losing grip on his party just as he needs them to line up behind a deal.
"He lost the support of a great many people in the Republican conference and this has been coming for some time," Amash told U.S. News. "It is hard for me to find someone who is not frustrated with leadership."
Amash says it is not just the committee shuffling that has members agitated, but leadership's close hold on the fiscal cliff negotiations.
"We are the members of Congress, and we would like to represent our district," Amash says. "We would expect to be involved in any negotiations. It is not fair to the American people for the speaker and the president to put a deal on the table and tell us we have 24 hours to support it."
A Republican House aide says leadership has already taken too much away from members to be able to broker a fiscal cliff deal with the GOP's most conservative members.
"Leadership has turned on their own and purged conservatives of their caucus who stand up and right the bell on irresponsible spending," the aide says. "What has happened with committee assignments has only emboldened conservatives. They are going to continue voting their conscience. We don't have earmarks anymore, so they cannot take away that, and they took away some of our committee assignments. There is nothing else they can take away unless they take the toilet paper in the bathroom."
Frustration over the committee switches have spread well beyond the confines of Capitol Hill.
A few outside groups have called for Boehner to be replaced as the Speaker of the House.
more at link: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/10/house-republicans-rip-boehner-after-committee-reshuffling
and remember there is a #purgeBoehner twitterbomb tomorrow, TUES 12/11 at 9pm EST
Conservative members say before a few colleagues were removed, no one was aware such a "scorecard" existed.
"Not only do I deserve answers... my colleagues who have been safe so far should know to how they can avoid retribution in the future," Huelskamp told U.S. News. "After all, the entire GOP conference was warned last week that leadership is watching their votes as well."
While only four members were directly affected by committee rearranging, the expulsions could have a ripple affect on the impending fiscal cliff negotiations.
The committee drama has left some conservative members with less incentive to vote with leadership on a plan to avoid the $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts slated to go into effect in 2013.
"The issue of losing committee assignments is still being worked out, and it has really soured the milk here," Huelskamp says. "If they come to conservatives with some plan that raises taxes; it won't be easy to get it through. There is strong opposition to where they are headed."
Amash says Boehner is losing grip on his party just as he needs them to line up behind a deal.
"He lost the support of a great many people in the Republican conference and this has been coming for some time," Amash told U.S. News. "It is hard for me to find someone who is not frustrated with leadership."
Amash says it is not just the committee shuffling that has members agitated, but leadership's close hold on the fiscal cliff negotiations.
"We are the members of Congress, and we would like to represent our district," Amash says. "We would expect to be involved in any negotiations. It is not fair to the American people for the speaker and the president to put a deal on the table and tell us we have 24 hours to support it."
A Republican House aide says leadership has already taken too much away from members to be able to broker a fiscal cliff deal with the GOP's most conservative members.
"Leadership has turned on their own and purged conservatives of their caucus who stand up and right the bell on irresponsible spending," the aide says. "What has happened with committee assignments has only emboldened conservatives. They are going to continue voting their conscience. We don't have earmarks anymore, so they cannot take away that, and they took away some of our committee assignments. There is nothing else they can take away unless they take the toilet paper in the bathroom."
Frustration over the committee switches have spread well beyond the confines of Capitol Hill.
A few outside groups have called for Boehner to be replaced as the Speaker of the House.
more at link: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/10/house-republicans-rip-boehner-after-committee-reshuffling
and remember there is a #purgeBoehner twitterbomb tomorrow, TUES 12/11 at 9pm EST