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Republicans Have Been Here Before. In 2008, They Refused to Go Home.

The year was 2008, and a group of insurgent Republicans mounted a rebellion on the floor of the House of Representatives as Congress bolted for the August recess. 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had adjourned the chamber without a vote on offshore drilling. Republicans refused to leave. The microphones were cut, the C-SPAN cameras went dark, and the lights were dimmed—and roughly 45 members kept giving speeches anyway, filling the seats with staffers, Boy Scouts, and tourists pulled in off the hallway. It was the first and only time I set foot on the House floor, documenting the drama on Twitter.

The talkathon stretched for hours and continued for days, sparking a “don’t go” rallying cry among grassroots conservatives back home.

Eighteen years later, it’s now the Senate, not the House, where another group of Republicans is asking their leadership to delay recess. The difference is that this time, the standoff is with their own party.

A Standoff With Their Own Leader

President Donald Trump wants the Senate to stay in Washington until it passes the SAVE America Act. The man they need to convince, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, wants someone to show him how that ends in a victory.

The standoff has defined the final week before the Senate’s five-week August recess, and it has exposed a rift between Republicans at the worst possible moment: three months before an election that will decide control of Congress.

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