Ultra Conservatives Form Their Own Caucus

“Increasingly frustrated with the size and direction of the Republican Study Committee, a handful of House Republicans have recently found respite in a smaller, private club founded by one of Congress’s leading young conservatives,” National Journal reports.

“The House Liberty Caucus, chaired by Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, quietly launched last year with five or six lawmakers attending a hastily choreographed meeting. Now the group holds a biweekly, invite-only luncheon that draws some two dozen lawmakers and is rapidly becoming an ideological home base for those “core” House conservatives who say the RSC’s swelling membership is diluting its ideological intensity.”