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Republicans chew on DeMint
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Jan 27, 2009 02:24pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Just after November’s election, Republican senators huddled in a closed-door meeting to consider a package of rules that would have tossed Ted Stevens out of their conference, imposed term limits on party leaders and otherwise changed the way the Senate Republican Conference does business.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who proposed the rules, saw quickly that they weren’t going to be popular with his colleagues. So one of his staffers urged him to withdraw the proposal setting term limits on the GOP leader, and DeMint hoped the others would remain packaged together so they could be considered in a single vote.
But Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander of Tennessee took issue with the staffer and quickly called a vote on the term-limit proposal before DeMint decided to withdraw it. Then party leaders proceeded to call up each of DeMint’s other proposals separately, creating a long series of votes that DeMint lost badly.
“No doubt,” DeMint said, Republican leaders were “trying to humiliate” him.
But some Senate Republicans say privately that DeMint has done plenty to humiliate himself. |
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