WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative lawmakers made a push Thursday to boot Republican Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger out of the House GOP because the two defied party leaders and joined the chamber’s special committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
The effort by the hard-right House Freedom Caucus faces uncertain prospects. House Republican leaders have exhibited little interest in acting quickly against the two mavericks, which could fuel a fight that would distract from the party’s preferred focus on issues such as inflation, crime and immigration.
The move is the latest example of turmoil over the GOP’s message and image, even as Trump’s shadow continues to loom large over the party.
Banishing Cheney, R-Wyo., and Kinzinger, R-Ill., from the House Republican organization, called the GOP conference, would threaten an end to their committee assignments. It would also deny them other normally routine privileges such as attending closed-door Republican strategy meetings.
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., who leads the roughly 40-member Freedom Caucus, told reporters that Cheney and Kinzinger chose to “join the Democrats on a witch hunt” against Republicans. He said it makes little sense to let them into private meetings where GOP lawmakers strategize against Democrats.
Biggs said letting the two into such sessions would be like having “two spies sitting right there. You knew they were spies, but you couldn’t remove them.”
Cheney and Kinzinger are outspoken Trump critics who agreed to let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., appoint them to the Jan. 6 investigative committee.
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That’s infuriated Republicans. They’ve refused to name any members to that panel after Pelosi blocked two would-be GOP appointees whose fervent pro-Trump views, she said, would jeopardize the investigation’s integrity.
Cheney spokesperson Jeremy Adler said the 11 Freedom Caucus members at Thursday’s news conference “represent a dangerous rot that is rooted in the Big Lie, conspiracy theories, bigotry, and disrespect for the rule of law and our law enforcement.” He said Cheney is working to “save the party of Lincoln and Reagan.”
Kinzinger spokesperson Maura Gillespie said “these are the same members who push conspiracy theories to their constituents.” She said Kinzinger wants “the truth and answers that the American people deserve.”
The Freedom Caucus wants the House GOP to approve a rule automatically removing lawmakers from the conference who accept a committee assignment that the party has not approved.
It takes only a majority of House Republicans to change an internal rule. That’s a lower hurdle than the two-thirds majority Republican rules require to remove a lawmaker from the conference.
But the entire House, including Democrats, formally makes committee assignments and could theoretically overrule an internal GOP vote.
Cheney had risen quickly to the No. 3 House GOP leadership post and is daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She angered conservatives this year when she voted to impeach Trump over his encouragement of supporters to assault the Capitol. Republicans voted to remove her from her position in May.
Kinzinger was also among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.
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And the reason they don’t is???
“The effort by the hard-right House Freedom Caucus faces uncertain prospects. House Republican leaders have exhibited little interest in acting quickly against the two mavericks, which could fuel a fight that would distract from the party’s preferred focus on issues such as inflation, crime and immigration.” You people need to stop being a bunch of wooses and learn how to scrap with the Liberal idiots in the Democrat Party. You people are so timid and so prone to manipulation.
The Liberals are not playing games and you Republicans need to stop playing them. Get a backbone and start kicking some a** up there. Don’t make me have to come up there and open up a can.
There’s a HELL OF A LOT MORE than just those 3, they need to boot out of the GOP.. BUT If i had my way, they’d be BOOTED OUT OF CONGRESS PERIOD… RIGHT Into a cell, while awaiting trial for high treason!
“Conservatives Want To Boot Cheney, Kinzinger From House GOP”
YES, DO IT!!!
Or at least take them off of EVERY committee!!! Chaney is Pelosi’s personal spy and comrade.
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So why not Cheney and Kinzinger???
“ He said Cheney is working to “save the party of Lincoln and Reagan.”,,,,,,NOT, she is working to save the Party of Cheney and Romney that is just the other face of a two faced Washington Establishment in fear of getting found out, so they just accuse others of what evil deeds they have already done themselves. To a guilty Democrat or RINO’s the only good defense of the guilty is a pre-empted offense on the innocent. Lincoln and Reagan are spinning in their graves and would gladly take another bullet themselves just to get rid of the Cheney contaminated Conservativism that betrays THE PEOPLE for their own self-interest, self-created in envy, and jealousy. Cheney and Kinzinger would take out Lincoln and Reagan themselves if they got in their way.
“two mavericks”? Yep Cheney and Kinzinger are two “mavericks” alright. These two are “maverick traitors” like the late “maverick” John McCain!
Or the ‘mavirick Romney”..
KICK THEM OUT THEY ARE RINOS AND WE DO NOT NEED RINOS SIDING WITH THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS!!! JAN 6 WAS ABOUT HEARING THE PEOPLES VOICE. WHY DID CAPITAL POLICE OPEN THE DORS AND WELCOME THEM IN???? ANSWER THAT QUESTION!!!
Seems to me the people in the states of Wyoming and Illinois need to have a big voice in this. I’m curious about how the people who voted for them feel about them. Are they raising their voices at home?
MAYBE we need to ask them WHY THEY ELECTED these traitors, in the first place!
If Kinzinger wants to get to the truth, will he be willing to investigate the security failures, full disclosure of who ALL the participants were, and how it was able to be ended so quickly if this was an insurrection/coup?
Day late and a dollar short. Less talk and more action.
Great idea!
I mean, seriously…
In any other context, you would call them SPIES (for the opposition)!
Honestly, does anyone think that Cheney ISN’T telling Pelosi (et al) what the Republicans talk about in their conference(s)?
Get them out of here!
Perhaps (after the 2022 mid-terms), the VOTERS will take care of that FOR US!
MAYBE they will FIX the Senate, too (getting rid of the traitors in the Senate who CALL themselves Republicans)!
We need to understand, the January 6th commission, is ONLY about getting to President Trump! The Patriots are an excuse!
ITS about punishing WE CONSERVATIVES, trump is just in the way.
Lets go from Talk, talk, talk to Do, do, done!……… When will the GOP disenfranchise Cheney and Kissinger and keep them from attending strategy meetings.
That action could bring more people into voting for Conservatives in the 2020 elections. A poll shows that most people recognise that the ‘Special Commission” is an attempt to smear POTUS45 and his followers.
Ms. Pelosi made that obvious when she vetoed the GOP recommended Commisssioners from being placed on the the Committee.
Cheney should have outed a long time ago, The Republican Party she represents was trashed by the voters in the pimaries leading up to the 2016 election when they chose Donald Trump over all the insider Committee choices becasue they were the same old faces with the same old ideas with different make-up before the cameras and new clothes on the emperor! The people are taking back their party but many refuse to acknowledge it, they will be left behind because they refuse to change.
How about worrying about something a little more important like enforcing the immigration laws and stop sending covid 19 infected illegals all over our nation. Close the BORDERS , we have a pandemic going on !
Lincoln and Reagan are turning over in their graves as Cheney in their name makes common cause with the Republic-destroying DemoRATS.
So, the Addlepated Parse [AP] continues to repeat “The Big Lie” that Trump encouraged rally goers to go to the capitol and attempt an insurrection.
OF course. They practice the mantra of “REPEAT A LIE often and loud enough, and eventually it becomes truth.”