‘Consider this our filibuster’: House GOP doesn’t buy Thune’s ‘show’

Seething House Republicans turn knives on John Thune with crude message

House conservatives are training their fire on a new target: their own Senate majority leader.Fed up with John Thune's (R-SD) refusal to nuke the filibuster and force through President Donald Trump's sweeping voter ID bill, House Republicans are reaching for a familiar weapon — the same scorched-ear...

House Republicans Turn on John Thune

Senate Majority Leader John Thune. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) Tom Williams/APHouse Republicans have always found solace in attacking the Senate. They routinely assailed former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, making him a boogeyman on the campaign trail and the face of anti-Trump Republicans.Now, some House Republicans are trying to use that same playbook against Senate Majority Leader John Thune.“It’s time for Thune to g…

‘Consider this our filibuster’: House GOP doesn’t buy Thune’s ‘show’

Less than 24 hours after Senate Majority Leader John Thune kicked off his attempt to satisfy those demanding passage of a voter identification bill, House Republicans were already saying they weren’t fooled. “What’s happening right now in the Senate is a SHOW VOTE,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., a leader of the House push to […]