Posted on 06/16/2015 12:48:44 PM PDT by cotton1706
House GOP leaders booted three members off the whip team for voting against a procedural rule that structured how a critical trade package was brought to the House floor last week.
Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) informed Reps. Cynthia Lummis (Wyo.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and Trent Franks (Ariz.) on Monday that they were no longer a part of the GOP’s vote-counting operation, a source close to the whip team confirmed.
Scalise’s decision was based on longstanding whip team rules that stated members must “vote as a team on procedural matters” but are free to vote against leadership on underlying legislation, the source said. One of those removed said she accepted Scalise’s decision. Lummis, a deputy whip, was aware when she cast her vote against leadership that there could be repercussions.
“She understands his decision and departs the Whip organization with nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Scalise and his entire organization,” Lummis spokesman Joe Spiering said in an email. “Mr. Scalise was trying to include a wide variety of voices from the Republican conference on the Whip Team. Cynthia respected that and continues to respect the difficult job he has.”
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The spineless majority is afraid of the iron boot of the establishment, as they almost unanimously voted in Boehner as Speaker.
Who would you Freepers like to see take the baton?
Are you kidding?! Louie Gohmert, by a mile. The most conservative member, and from the Great State of Texas.
The audio to this story talks about applause for Boehner in the conference. Fact is, he isn’t the big problem. The real problem is the rank & file in the GOP caucus that voted to make him Speaker. They are pigs at the trough. Boehner is merely a symptom of Potomac fever wrecking this country.
Boehner makes a fine politburo comrade.
What a pos he is.
The spineless majority is afraid of the iron boot of the establishment, as they almost unanimously voted in Boehner as Speaker.
Afraid? Hardly. They love Boehner. He catches the flak while they cash the K Street checks.
Uuuuhhhh, what you got against latrines?
They are repository’s of disease.. harbinger’s of stink.. not a good drain field..
He wiped his butt with it as soon as he became Speaker. They have so much dirt on that drunk whoremonger that he can't stop crying!
I wish that POS a long term prison sentence!
Your much too nice.I would prefer 1hr,with hand tools and a blow torch.
Louie Gohmert is by far my favorite congressman and would make an exceptional Speaker of the House!
Yes, I believe you’re both right.
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