Members of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus refused to surrender control of the floor, forcing G.O.P. leaders to scrap votes for the week and leaving the speaker facing what he conceded was “chaos.”
A Baptist minister and a broadcaster, he turned evangelicals into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture Congress in 1994. He earlier ran for president.
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In all the fukkery of this week this got glossed over in hl
A group of conservatives who prevented the House from voting on a series of bills last week warned that they could bring the chamber to a halt again if spending isn't cut further.
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