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Two Members of Boehner’s Leadership Team Openly Refuse to Admit if They’ve Read Obamatrade

Two members of House GOP leadership—Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Rules Committee chairman Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX)—refused to admit through spokespersons to Breitbart News whether they have read the text of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Pacific Rim trade deal, but they still support granting President Barack Obama the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to fast track it.

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Report: Top Conservative Congressmen Quit GOP Leadership Whip Team

Florida Congressman Ron DeSantis (R) is said to have quit the House Republican whip team because House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) has politicized the procedural vote process and has threatened to kick out those members who did not conform to the wishes and demands of House leadership, this according to a source very close to whip team itself.

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Boehner Retaliation Haunts Republicans Who Defended, Voted for Him

House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to retaliate, or exact “revenge” as Politico put it, against at least two House Republicans who voted for a Republican alternative is haunting Republicans who supported him conference-wide and sparking a discussion in the party about the role Boehner should play as Speaker—and Republican members should play in challenging his authority.

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White House Knocks GOP on Scalise; No Apology for Sharpton, Wright

The White House has hosted serial race-baiter Al Sharpton dozens of times, and has followed his cues in racially divisive controversies from the Trayvon Martin shooting to the ongoing “Black Lives Matter” protests, which have led to retaliatory violence against police across the nation. Moreover, President Barack Obama himself spent twenty years in the pews of the church of Jeremiah Wright in Chicago, enduring Wright’s racist sermons without comment or complaint, and contributing thousands of dollars to Wright’s fundraising efforts

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Levin: Scalise Should Go, Would be Gone if Tea Partier

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin, argued Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) should resign on Monday. Levin said that while he doesn’t believe Scalise held the views of David Duke, or even knew he was speaking

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WH Hits GOP for Keeping ‘David Duke without Baggage’ Scalise

Monday, at the first White House press briefing of the new year in answering a question about the controversy over Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) speech to a white supremacist group 12 years ago, press secretary Josh Earnest said though the president believes

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Attacks GOP For Protecting Scalise

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is slamming Republicans for standing by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA). “As the new Congress begins, nothing discredits Republican claims of ‘outreach’ and bringing people together more than their decision to keep Steve Scalise at the top tier of the elected leadership of their caucus,” Wasserman Schultz said in a statement Monday, calling their defense of the Lousiana lawmaker “divisive.”

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White House: Allowing Steve Scalise To Stay Majority Leader ‘Says A Lot’ About GOP Values

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest couldn’t resist drawing attention to Republicans for allowing Rep. Steve Scalise to stay as House Majority Whip, after reports that he addressed a group of people at a white supremacist group convention. Earnest explained that Republicans know that they needed to “broaden their appeal” to minorities, gays, women, and young people, but that it was eventually up to the party to decide.

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Steve Scalise and the Lost Art of Honorable Resignation

The honorable resignation is a lost art in American politics. Most politicians are determined to cling to power, regardless of the cost to their reputation, their party’s standing, or their broader ideals. Scalise could have resigned with dignity, affirming the principle that even fleeting association with racism and antisemitism will not be tolerated in the Republican Party.

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Greta Van Susteren: Scalise Should Have ‘Stepped Aside’

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Fox News Channel host Greta Van Susteren said the incoming GOP Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA)  should step down over last weeks controversy that erupted over allegations Scalise spoke at a 2002 white supremacy event. Van

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Dem Sen: GOP Should Confirm Loretta Lynch Over Scalise Controversy

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said the Republicans can address the controversy regarding Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) allegedly speaking to a group of white supremacists over a decade ago by confirming President Barack Obama’s  nominee

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David Duke: ‘No Question’ Rep. Steve Scalise ‘Echoed A Lot Of My Ideology And My Policies’

“You have a long line of politicians who go to see Obama. Now, Scalise is supposed to be a bad guy because he may have come to our meeting he may not have come to our meeting or whatever,” David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, said on his radio program on Friday. “He certainly did, like most Republicans in my state and elsewhere, and most Democrats in the South and certainly many around the country, he echoed a lot of my ideology and my policies–no question about it,” Duke added.

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Poll: Republican Voters Overwhelmingly Want Members to Remove Boehner as Speaker

A whopping 60 percent of voters who voted for Republicans in the last election either definitely or probably want their member of Congress to elect someone other than John Boehner on Jan. 6, when Congress convenes, according to a poll. The voters were asked: “As you may know the new Congress will select its leaders in January. If it were up to you, would you elect John Boehner to continue as Speaker of the House or would you elect someone new?”

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Lessons of the Steve Scalise Debacle

The Steve Scalise controversy had a fairly simple resolution. When the accusation had emerged that he had spoken in 2002 to a white supremacist group associated with former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, he ought to have stepped aside temporarily and asked the House Republican leadership to conduct a full investigation. That would have confirmed that Republicans would not permit anyone to lead the party who kept such associations, and without punishing Scalise before the facts were known.

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Congressman To Boehner: Make Scalise Resign From Leadership Over David Duke Aide Relationship

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York is the first member of the U.S. Congress to call on House Speaker John Boehner to ask for House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise’s resignation. Maloney wants Scalise’s scalp after the revelation that Scalise had a years-long personal and political relationship with Kenneth Knight, the top political aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

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Jackson Lee: Disappointed Scalise Spoke To KKK Just A Few Years Ago

Wednesday on MSNBC, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) discussed the controversy over  recently elected House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaking at a gathering of a white supremacist organization over a decade ago and said Scalise should have known “any organization that was affiliated

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Sacramento Bee Editorial Slams McCarthy for Defending Scalise

The Sacramento Bee published an editorial Wednesday in which it criticizes California Republican Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader in the U.S. House, for defending Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) over allegations that he addressed a gathering associated with white supremacist David Duke in 2012. (Scalise has apologized quickly, though it is not clear whether he knew about the group’s beliefs or if he even addressed the group at all.)

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Report: Scalise’s Pitch 20 Years Ago: I’m ‘David Duke Without The Baggage’

Nearly 20 years ago, when he was an up-and-coming politician, Rep. Steve Scalise reportedly told a reporter that he’s like David Duke without the baggage. “This is what I remember about the first time I met Steve Scalise nearly 20 years ago: He told me he was like David Duke without the baggage,” Stephanie Grace, a longtime reporter on Louisiana politics, writes in the liberal New Orleans Advocate.

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Exclusive—Mark Levin: Jeb Bush Must Answer Whether He Stands with Boehner, Scalise Amid White Supremacist Scandal

Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Mark Levin, a former official in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, is calling on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to answer whether he stands with House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise in the wake of a blistering Scalise scandal concerning his longtime ties to a top aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.

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Boehner Ally Steve Scalise Rocked By White Supremacy Scandal

A member of John Boehner’s inner circle is under fire even as the House Speaker is at his most vulnerable. Exactly one week before the House GOP’s top official will seek re-election to his post, multiple sources report that his deputy, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, spoke at a conference of white supremacists back in 2002.

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