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Both Boehner, Blunt Short of Winning Tally
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jan 10, 2006 08:27pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 11, 2006 01:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | House conservatives moved on Tuesday to prevent either Roy Blunt or John Boehner from wrapping up the race to become majority leader before Congress reconvenes later this month.
Rep. Mike Pence (news, bio, voting record), R-Ind., who chairs the Republican Study Committee, a group of about 110 conservative members of the House, said he hopes the race won't be decided before his committee holds a retreat Jan. 30-31 in Baltimore.
Meanwhile, an informal survey of several state delegations shows that many lawmakers are withholding endorsements.
Blunt, R-Mo., the GOP whip, claims the momentum with 45 publicly declared supporters. Boehner, R-Ohio, the chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, claims 30 public supporters. Their totals represent about one third of all GOP lawmakers, though both camps claim additional private commitments.
It would take 116 votes to win the post.
Some Republicans have grumbled that both Blunt and Boehner are too close to Washington's lobbying community and that neither represents the fresh face that the GOP needs in the wake of DeLay's problems and the Abramoff scandal. |
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