UPDATE: Boehner Spokesman Kevin Smith responds- “The Steering Committee makes decisions based on a range of factors.”
House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.
Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.
Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. “It is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return,” Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. “The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement.”
Earlier on Monday in an interview with Breitbart News, Huelskamp again reaffirmed his support for the Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) anti-tax pledge. He’s encouraging his colleagues in the House to come out publicly against potential tax increases and asking citizens across the country to help.
Huelskamp thinks his most recent challenge to his GOP colleagues – asking them to reaffirm their pledges – is hardly the only conservative thing he’s done to spark leadership retaliation. In his Monday night statement, he listed out a number of other conservative things he’s done that he thinks caused leadership to turn their fire on him.
Read More at breitbart.com . By Matthew Boyle.
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Boehner has no boner. Or spine. Or loyalty. Or patriotism. Or guts.
We should all send Bone Head boehner a brand new crying towel for him to cry and whine into. Boehner needs to be fired. we don`t need cowards like him and Kerry in positions of power.
Proves they are truly undercover Demos, doesn’t it? Part of the problem and never part of a solution that honors us. They must go! We have gotten several new and upright representatives in Congress, now we must ahead and harder and get more in there and NEVER re-elect after 2 terms. They get too entrenched in themselves, power, money and egoism. We don’t them so let’s get rid of them along with the empty chair person!
Time for a new conservative party to get rid of the likes of capitulators like Boehner yet?
Boehner, et al. has made a deal with the devil. In spite of the posturing, we will not go off the fiscal cliff due to back room deals like this. Watch out for the debt ceiling issue, too. Too bad for the conservative voices, as few as they are, in the House. Way to go, Mr. Speaker. Way to sell out the GOP.