Posted on 04/14/2015 3:41:23 PM PDT by Jane Long
Three months after they voted against John Boehner's third term as speaker, two Republicans have been removed from a key committee in retaliation for their dissent.
The House Rules Committee announced on Tuesday that they have filled two positions temporarily vacated by Reps. Richard Nugent and Daniel Webster, who were taken off the panel after they joined 24 conservative Republicans in voting against Boehner in January.
Reps. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., will fill the positions, meaning that Webster and Nugent have been permanently ousted. The two lawmakers served on the Rules Committee in the 113th Congress, but were excluded from the roster approved by lawmakers in the hours after they voted against Boehner.
Nugent and Webster appear to be the only lawmakers to lose committee posts after voting against Boehner. Republican leadership aides told the Washington Examiner the Rules panel is considered an arm of the Speaker's office, and thus has a higher threshold for loyalty that Nugent and Webster did not meet because they voted against Boehner.
House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, praised Byrne for his "commitment to a small, conservative federal government and a strong national defense."
Sessions called Newhouse, "a tireless advocate for prioritizing nuclear cleanup issues, science, and technological innovation during his time in Congress."
So what's his district's excuse?
“Boehner is such a Small man.”
Well, please do not insult small men. As for Boehner, he is lower than dog excrement.
Time for the rebels to leave the GOP and shrink Bonehead’s majority down to dangerous territory. The rebels should actually vote against something the ahole GOP House is for, just to flex their muscles. Might finally send a message to the gutless Boneheads that there’s trouble, with a capital T, on the horizon unless they stop backstabbing their own people.
If he gets to get the country as a whole to repent and turn back to God. He can’t allow the unrepentant to drag the country over the brink.
At least you know what to expect from a snake. It feels body heat coming towards it, its instinct is to strike.
Yes. Where is the Conservative Coalition? Who has joined?
I agree.
The Tea Party folks need to gain critical mass. That is the GOPe fear. When that happens, things can change.
Wow, that monster has HUGE feet!
As big as the rhino’s.
No idea where the Conservative Coalition is, or even what it is supposed to do. If they do exist, they had better start kicking Boehner’s ass or nobody will take them seriously.
We definitely need some Republicans to leave the Party and declare themselves “Independents”. While they would give up any seniority they might have, with Boehner and Mitchell in the leadership positions, seniority means absolutely nothing.
Look, commie Bernie Sanders has posed as an Independent for decades, as did turncoat Jeffers (Vt), so why can’t we do the same thing to show how a Conservative Independent Caucus can control the outcome of any vote in the House.
Time to get off our asses and start kicking those of our enemies in both parties.
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