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Higgins Breaks With GOP on Rule Vote, Blames Senate for Stalling Republican Agenda

Virginia Grace McKinnon

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., broke with Republican leadership by voting against a rule on Tuesday in response to Republicans’ failure to act on key GOP priorities.

Higgins, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, sat down with the Daily Signal on Tuesday before the vote. He explained that his vote was in response to inaction on the part of Senate Republicans.

“I think three or four times in 10 years, I’ve opposed a Republican majority rule. That’s not a go-to weapon for me. But I’m opposing this rule,” Higgins said of the procedural mechanism that would have allowed a number of bills to receive a vote on the House floor.

“To vote no on a rule requires some very egregious actions from the establishment in some way,” Higgins continued. “In this case, it’s a total failure of the Senate and total acceptance of that behavior........

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