Posted on Jun 7, 2023
U.S. House paralyzed as conservative Republicans' fight with McCarthy drags on
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https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/ [login to see] /house-freedom-caucus-republicans-mccarthy-vote-debt-ceiling-gas-stoves
The U.S. House adjourned Wednesday following a day of paralyzed floor action as a dispute between members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy drags on.
Nearly a dozen members of the hard-right GOP group tanked a procedural vote on Tuesday in retribution for the debt ceiling deal previously brokered by the speaker and President Biden.
Eleven Republicans joined Democratic lawmakers in voting to stop debate on a pair of bills that would ramp us gas stove protections — a GOP priority that had been expected to garner most Republican support. It marked the first such failure on the House floor in more than 20 years.
The publicly humiliating blow for McCarthy and House Republican leadership follows intraparty discord lingering from the debt deal, with conservative Republicans saying the compromise legislation didn't go far enough to cut spending.
The U.S. House adjourned Wednesday following a day of paralyzed floor action as a dispute between members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy drags on.
Nearly a dozen members of the hard-right GOP group tanked a procedural vote on Tuesday in retribution for the debt ceiling deal previously brokered by the speaker and President Biden.
Eleven Republicans joined Democratic lawmakers in voting to stop debate on a pair of bills that would ramp us gas stove protections — a GOP priority that had been expected to garner most Republican support. It marked the first such failure on the House floor in more than 20 years.
The publicly humiliating blow for McCarthy and House Republican leadership follows intraparty discord lingering from the debt deal, with conservative Republicans saying the compromise legislation didn't go far enough to cut spending.
U.S. House paralyzed as conservative Republicans' fight with McCarthy drags on
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Virginia Republican Bob Good, also a Freedom Caucus member, told NPR the group will continue pushing for "meaningful cuts and spending reductions." Good also joined the Republicans who tanked the Tuesday vote.
"I think we need to look at all of the spending bills and see what are the areas of opportunity to cut, unnecessary wasteful spending, unjustified spending or actual spending that is harmful to the American people," he said."
..."Virginia Republican Bob Good, also a Freedom Caucus member, told NPR the group will continue pushing for "meaningful cuts and spending reductions." Good also joined the Republicans who tanked the Tuesday vote.
"I think we need to look at all of the spending bills and see what are the areas of opportunity to cut, unnecessary wasteful spending, unjustified spending or actual spending that is harmful to the American people," he said."
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