Posted on 06/12/2014 4:29:53 PM PDT by cotton1706
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) argued Thursday that he can bring an end to disunity and disarray in the House by restoring "red state" priorities that his chief rival for majority leader, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), may be unwilling or unable to pursue.
Sessions emerged from a lunch with the Texas delegation strongly denying rumors that he was dropping out of the race and exuding confidence that he can beat McCarthy despite only having one week to campaign ahead of June 19 leadership elections.
“We several times have found ourselves tangled in our ability to get all of our team together. That is all I say, that is not blaming anybody. I will offer that I can bring us together,” he told reporters.
“The agenda moving forward needs to be a conservative agenda that we start with the core of our membership that we work to make everybody comfortable with what we are trying to accomplish,” he said. Sessions stopped short of saying McCarthy has been a bad whip when asked about embarrassing floor mishaps, such as over the farm bill and appropriations measures.
“If we are together then we understand what’s in the bills and why we have got to vote on it,” he said. “I’d get from a team perspective and I would start with a good solid conservative base.”
Sessions noted that Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), a favorite of Tea Party members in the House, has “pitched his support to me.”
“I am running for majority leader on an agenda that can bring us together and to start with an agenda that is more red-state oriented,” he said.
The top priority for Sessions will be passing a bill to beef up border security to stop the tide of illegal immigration.
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all I want from Gowdy is articles of impeachment sent to the house floor.
Gowdy, McMorris and McCarthy will not lose a primary in 100 years.
If Cornyn had to run every 2 years against the Texas GOP voters he would act differently.
True, I am just saying in if I had to pick the lesser of “two weavel”!
“Gowdy is the same as Sessions on amnesty. Except Sessions can be Cantorized.”
That is disappointing, I did not know that.
“True, I am just saying in if I had to pick the lesser of “two weavel”!”
Yeah, It’s really disconcerting that very few in the Congress want to observe and enforce our existing immigration laws. I know the “big business GOP” simply look at their employment costs. As long as they get cheap labor, they seemingly don’t care what it does to the country. All they want to do is die rich! OTOH a large portion of our “workforce” think that they are “too good” to do some of the low-level jobs, but the Mexicans will. I traverse the Salinas Valley quite often. I don’t see any AA’s out there doing the stoop labor required for the produce grown there.
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