A tale of two votes (one of them a secret)
Friday, February 5, 2021 |
Chad Groening, Steve Jordahl (OneNewsNow.com)
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Two votes on Thursday involved the future roles of two GOP House members – and neither result is pleasing conservative observers.
In one case, a former Texas political leader finds it shameful that House Republicans overwhelmingly rejected a call to punish a high-ranking member of their own party for her disloyalty to President Donald Trump. By a secret ballot vote of 145-61, Republicans defeated an effort by staunch conservatives in the party to remove Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) from her number-three leadership position in the wake of her vote last month to impeach President Trump.
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