Posted on 04/20/2006 6:10:01 AM PDT by Small-L
...During the pre-Easter Republican meltdown on Capitol Hill, when the party's leadership in both the Senate and House was repudiated on several issues, nothing was more embarrassing than the House failure to pass a budget bill. Everything was in place to pass budget reforms. But Lewis, the powerful chairman of the Appropriations Committee, pulled the plug. ...
On April 6, before the House recessed, a budget containing spending reforms was agreed to by the new majority leader, John Boehner, and Rep. Mike Pence, head of the conservative Republican Study Committee. What's more, Rep. Mike Castle, leader of the House moderates, was on board. It was then that Lewis torpedoed the budget by instructing his committee members to oppose it. ...
Lewis on March 15 acted as an appropriator in opposing President Bush's attempted revival of the line-item veto, a proposal embraced by the group negotiating the budget reforms. But the solidarity of the appropriators may be breaking. Leadership sources say five or six Republican members of the committee are unhappy about Lewis's apostasy though they are not ready to come forward publicly.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
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