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Celerity

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18. It is 10 now, Stephanie Murphy (FL-7) another Problem Solvers member, joined the 9 over the weekend.
Tue Aug 24, 2021, 06:51 PM
Aug 2021

She is one of the most moderately conservative Dems in the House Caucus (one of only 6 current Dems who had both substantial amounts of votes and who voted with Trump over 50% of the time in the 115th House, along with Henry Cuellar, Conor Lamb, (both of whom were close to 70% in terms of voting with Trump), Tom O'Halleran, and Josh Gottheimer, plus the 'now in the Senate' Sinema ).

Murphy is the chair of the Blue Dogs as well.

She is one of only 10 'trifecta' members, meaning she belongs to all 3 moderate/centrist/conservative Dem Caucuses:

Blue Dog Coalition
New Democrat Coalition
Problem Solvers Caucus

along with Carolyn Bourdeaux, Tom O'Halleran, Lou Correa, Jim Costa, Brad Schneider, Josh Gottheimer, Kurt Schrader, Vicente Gonzalez, and Abigail Spanberger.


Here the 10 moderates/centrists (Cuellar is a conservative on many things) in discussion about the 2 infrastructure bills, you can see the overlap with the above lists.

Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey
Carolyn Bourdeaux of Georgia
Filemon Vela of Texas
Jared Golden of Maine
Henry Cuellar of Texas
Vicente Gonzalez of Texas
Ed Case of Hawaii
Jim Costa of California
Kurt Schrader of Oregon
Stephanie Murphy of Florida

I don't understand why they're calling themselves 'moderates' leftstreet Aug 2021 #1
Because the media is owned by billionaires? questionseverything Aug 2021 #14
You are not paying attention. A deal was done this afternoon. Tomconroy Aug 2021 #2
You are not paying attention. The 220-212 vote was just a first step toward drafting Biden's plan bluewater Aug 2021 #5
"That's just part of the legislative process". So true! Tomconroy Aug 2021 #9
"it showcased the party differences that threaten to upend Biden's ambitious rebuilding agenda" bluewater Aug 2021 #10
Um, they did mcar Aug 2021 #3
Just a first step. bluewater Aug 2021 #7
Thank you bluedevil4 Aug 2021 #12
Seems like they have reached an agreement JustAnotherGen Aug 2021 #4
Seems like only a first step was taken. bluewater Aug 2021 #8
But before we have a second step we have to have a first step. totodeinhere Aug 2021 #13
I find their self-labeling as "moderate" misleading bluewater Aug 2021 #16
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2021 #6
Progressives need to accept that us Blue Dogs exist and always have and eTXwLA Aug 2021 #11
And without the more "moderate" members of the caucus we don't have chance of keeping the totodeinhere Aug 2021 #15
The VAST majority of moderate Democrats in Congress support Biden's plans bluewater Aug 2021 #17
except that on this, the 10 (Stephanie Murphy has now joined the first 9) are outnumbered 210 to 10 Celerity Aug 2021 #20
It is 10 now, Stephanie Murphy (FL-7) another Problem Solvers member, joined the 9 over the weekend. Celerity Aug 2021 #18
It's interesting that fiscally conservative Democrats choose to brand as "moderates" bluewater Aug 2021 #19
well, other than Henry Cuellar, there are no truly cultural 'conservative' Dems left in the House Celerity Aug 2021 #21
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