Dem Rep. Chris Van Hollen picking up where Bawney Fwank left off.
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told a crowd gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has given “veto power to the most extreme members of the Tea Party caucus.”
Van Hollen called on the House to vote on a Senate measure that would raise taxes on individuals making more than $200,000 in order to avoid the fiscal cliff.
The Democrat claimed that the Republican Boehner will not call for the vote because of the Tea Party caucus: “So even though a majority of the members of the House, duly elected by the American people, Republicans and Democrats, even though a majority of them would vote for the Senate-passed bill he’s saying, ‘we’re not going to allow you to vote’. In other words, he’s given veto power to the most extreme members of the Tea Party caucus.”