Rank-and-file lawmakers are growing more upset each day with how GOP leaders and the White House are running Congress. The issue is most acute in the ongoing health care debate.
But here’s one more point of tension: provisions struck from the annual defense policy bill that had bipartisan and bicameral support.
“I do believe that if the House language and the Senate language is the same — not similar, but the same — then there should be respect for that,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said. “We are pushed around in a lot of cases as the members.”
