The use of key votes to keep track of lawmakers’ ideological purity has long been a source of tension between outside groups and elected officials, particularly for freshmen who were sent to Washington “to stop President Obama’s policy agenda,” Heritage Action Communications Director Dan Holler said.
“If you look at what happened on our scorecard, a lot of these guys got bumped down” as a result of votes on the CR this spring and the debt bill, Holler added.
He also warned that “when people around the country figure out what’s going ... they’re going to be frustrated.”
Rep. Bill Cassidy has his blood drawn by Alesha Barbour during a free hepatitis screening in the Rayburn House Office Building hosted by the Congressional Viral Hepatitis Caucus to recognize "National Viral Hepatitis Testing Day."
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