Matt Green , associate professor, politics, wrote a blog for the Washington Post on the internal divisions of the House GOP. See below.
From: Washington Post Date: March 2, 2015 Author: Matt Green
House Republican leaders have had a rough time lately getting bills through the legislative process. Most recently, they watched as their proposed three-week funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was unexpectedly defeated, forcing them to enact a one-week funding bill just hours before the agency would have run out of money.
As Jeff Jenkins rightly notes, the defeat of the measure was unusual: The House majority party almost never brings bills to the floor if it doesn't have the votes to pass them. When such measures do lose, these "disappointment" votes usually make the majority look bad.
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