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GOP lawmakers vent frustrations at meeting
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| News Date | Friday, November 4, 2005 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Patrick O’Connor
House Republicans raised a litany of concerns about their leadership and agenda yesterday in a four-hour meeting in the Library of Congress.
The so-called Advance meeting was set up as a chance for lawmakers to discuss their aims for next year — immigration, energy costs and unease about the economy were highlighted — but it also became an outlet for frustration with the leadership.
Only Rep. Charlie Bass (R-N.H.) called explicitly for leadership elections in January, according to members who were there. But the undercurrent of the whole event was one of uncertainty about their temporary leadership and the legislative agenda running up to the midterm elections next November.
The mini-retreat came at a difficult time for GOP lawmakers. Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was forced to step aside at least temporarily as majority leader in late September after his indictment by a Texas grand jury. Conservative members are demanding further cuts to offset recovery costs in the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast region, and leadership has readied a tough series of budget votes to finish out the year.
During the same stretch, the White House suffered heavy criticism for its response to Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers withdrew in the face of conservative opposition and Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, resigned after being indicted on allegations he obstructed a federal probe into the leaking of a covert CIA operative’s identity. |
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