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[OH Rep] Boehner issues threat
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem May 17, 2006 07:10pm |
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| News Date | Friday, May 19, 2006 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Alexander Bolton
House Majority Leader John Boehner issued a veiled threat to GOP incumbents yesterday that they could be stripped of plum committee assignments if they voted against his budget resolution.
Three and a half months into his job, Boehner flexed his authority at a closed-door meeting, saying those lawmakers who do not face difficult races in November’s midterm election have no reason to vote against the budget, according to people who attended the conference session.
The House has passed a budget resolution roughly setting spending levels each year since 1974, and many congressional observers would view failure to do so this year as an embarrassment to Boehner.
His superficially anodyne statement of electoral reality carried the message — chairmanships and good committee assignments should go to lawmakers who support the House Republican agenda — according to some of the lawmakers who were there to hear it.
The stark underlying threat was underscored at the meeting when Rep. George Radanovich (R-Calif.), one of the first 50 Republicans to support Boehner’s candidacy for majority leader, stood up and said explicitly that leaders should consider the budget vote when weighing committee positions, attendees reported.
During the meeting, Boehner also singled out Rep. Walter Jones, the Democrat-turned-Republican from North Carolina, as a lawmaker who did not support the budget and needed to be “talked to” by his fellow Republicans. |
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