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Ted Poe, Freedom Caucus Dropout: 'Saying No Is Easy'
newsmax.com ^ | 27 Mar 2017

Posted on 03/27/2017 9:05:20 AM PDT by Helicondelta

Texas U.S. Rep. Ted Poe quit the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Sunday after lawmakers failed to pass a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act two days before.

Poe had prepared to vote for the Republican American Health Care Act, which was ultimately pulled from the House floor when Republicans learned they did not have enough votes to pass it, reported Fox News. Poe said he was unhappy with the caucus opposition to the bill.

"To deliver on the conservative agenda we have promised the American people for eight years, we must come together to find solutions to move this country forward," said Poe, per Fox.

"Saying no is easy, leading is hard, but that is what we were elected to do. Leaving this caucus will allow me to be a more effective member of Congress and advocate for the people of Texas. It is time to lead."

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To: dware

I agree. Ryan lofted a plan that actually kept a number of things we detested about it. Ryan is a GOPe Leftist, pure and simple.

He’s unfit to be the Speaker.

This is the idiot that didn’t stop anything Obama did. Those Executive Orders would have been toothless if Ryan had exerted his prerogative to not fund them.

Ryan was a fellow traveler of Obama, for all intents and purposes.


81 posted on 03/27/2017 2:19:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: lodi90

Are you implying that anyone who was against this is an anti Trumper?


82 posted on 03/27/2017 3:05:18 PM PDT by Jarhead9297
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