The New Batch Of White Guys
"Steve Scalise is the fourth-most-conservative member of the House GOP caucus. He’s also chairman of the Republican Study Committee....But most Tea Party folks don’t view Scalise as one of their own because he’s been close to Boehner."
Joshua Green in Bloomberg Businessweek.
"Steve Scalise is the fourth-most-conservative member of the House GOP caucus. He’s also chairman of the Republican Study Committee....But most Tea Party folks don’t view Scalise as one of their own because he’s been close to Boehner."
Joshua Green in Bloomberg Businessweek.
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No surprise: McCarthy and Scalise win. "House Republicans on Thursday overwhelmingly elected Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be majority leader and Rep. Steve Scalise to be majority whip, elevating a pair of lawmakers who promised a more open and conservative approach to running the chamber. But the new team will quickly have to confront some of the old challenges of trying to hold together a fractious GOP caucus going into the final stretch of legislation before the 2014 midterm elections. McCarthy, a congenial Californian aligned with his party’s business-friendly establishment, said he hoped to make the House GOP more effective....Scalise, a Louisianan who leads an increasingly populist caucus of conservatives, promised to hold the party true to its core principles." Paul Kane and Ed O'Keefe in The Washington Post.
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