Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) was elected on Friday to chair the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the largest conservative caucus in the House, for the 119th Congress.

Pfluger, who had led the caucus’s energy-focused task force, ran for the role against Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.), who headed its budget task force.

The vote was 80-57, two sources told The Hill.

“[The Republican Study Committee] is going to play a really key role in all the things that are happening with the agenda that President Trump and our country basically mandated of our party,” Pfluger told The Hill.

“Honored to be able to lead it,” Pfluger said. “There's a lot of work in front of us. But I think that what this organization has stood for for over........

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