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Posted on 11/24/2014 5:39:14 AM PST by cotton1706
A battle is heating up between two top Republicans over the coveted chairmanship of the Senate Budget Committee, carrying implications for the ability of the new GOP Congress to govern as well as the emerging clash over immigration.
The turf war pits Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the committee's ranking member, against Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY), a longtime committee member who asserts seniority over his Alabama colleague and is now seeking to reclaim it.
"Senator Enzi is seeking the Budget Chairmanship," Enzi spokesman Daniel Head told TPM. "Under the Republican Conference rules, he has seniority for the post and it is Senator Sessions that is challenging him, not the other way around."
Sessions's office declined to comment on the record.
The contest is a proxy war over whether Republicans will veer toward confrontation with President Barack Obama or whether they'll be more restrained and cautious when they assume full control of Congress in January.
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Senate Democrats are privately rooting for Enzi to defeat Sessions.
"If Senate Republican leaders are looking for someone to help rein in the tea party on budget issues, it would be about as surprising as the sun coming up if they had cold feet about Senator Sessions," one Democratic aide said, speaking on condition of anonymity, "who votes to the right of Paul Ryan and apparently can't say no to the chance to risk a shutdown or a default."
Internal Senate GOP rules say committee members must elect their leader and have the choice ratified by the conference. The Republicans currently on the committee are not a very confrontational bunch and include three lawmakers up for reelection in blue or purple states in 2016: Sens. Rob Portman (OH), Ron Johnson (WI) and Kelly Ayotte (NH).
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No surprise there! They know that Enzi was a go-along guy with both Ted Kennedy and Tom Harkin on the HELP Committee. He did nothing to stop Obamacare from getting out of committee.
RINOs consolidating power. McConnell’s mumblers.
Washington speak for total capitulation.
Once again, the fix is in! Boehner, McConnel, Enzi.....why bother having a 2 party system.
We don’t have a two party system.
Oh yeah. I’m pulling for Sessions. Prolly an exercise in futility.
No surprise here.
Let’s go Sessions!!
BUT, but, we held our nose THIS time (again).....
MAYBE, if we only had the White House too! *rolls eyes*
The oligarchs don’t want Sessions to have any power.
Sessions is simply SUPERHUMAN and will bring back the “Balance of Power” that our Framers intended. Enzi...probably not.
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