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Report: Heritage Foundation Barred From GOP House Groups Meetings
Tom Kludt 9:23 AM EDT, Thursday August 29, 2013
Members of one of the leading conservative think tanks have reportedly been barred from attending a Republican House group's weekly meetings after the Farm Bill went down in flames earlier this summer.
According to a report Wednesday in National Journal, the Republican Study Committee is no longer allowing employees for the Heritage Foundation to attend the meetings. Heritage, currently led by former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), had been a fixture at the meetings until last month when the RSC, comprised of 172 conservative GOP House members, made the change.
The move came after the House voted in June to reject a Farm Bill that would have slashed $2 billion annually from food stamps. The think tank's lobbying arm, Heritage Action, called for the bill to be split into two parts: one to cover agricultural policy and another that dealt with SNAP, the food stamp program. Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN), a member of the RSC, proposed an amendment that would have accomplished just that but it failed.
Heritage Action then warned members against voting for the bill, ultimately leading to 62 Republicans joining Democrats to defeat the legislation despite majority GOP support. Conservative groups such as Heritage and Club For Growth celebrated the demise of the Farm Bill, a major blow to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who supported the legislation.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) chided Boehner for the failure.
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Report: Heritage Foundation Barred From GOP House Group’s Meetings (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2013
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Warpy
(111,277 posts)1. And the cracks just get wider and wider
I imagine Heritage is too liberal for a lot of teabaggers.
I'm almost able to feel sorry for Boner. He will live on in infamy simply because he was the poor schmuck in the hot seat while his party was falling apart around him.
JHB
(37,161 posts)6. I think it's the other way around -- under DeMint and Heritage Action's pipsqueak...
...chickenhawk CEO, they're egging on "no compromise" positions among the teabaggers, against the R establishment.
Rex
(65,616 posts)2. SO how is that re-branding campaign going?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)3. That's the best news I've heard all week.
Now if Roger Ailes boots them out of Fox News.........
Berlum
(7,044 posts)4. Republicon Stink Tank gets ass canned
Shoulda happened a long time ago.
Now the Repubbie Study Committee needs a massive, collective Brain Douche.
FSogol
(45,491 posts)5. Haw-haw. Can we fast forward to the part where DeMint loses his job at Heritage?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)7. If the rest of them at HF re anything like the POS who was a former editor
at the paper where I worked, good riddance.
The POS ended up working there, a place perfectly suited to his twisted personality and sick politics.