The particular extension, which usually might have allowed, among additional things, the particular FBI to check citizens' library records as part associated with terror investigations, failed for several reasons. Some Republicans were angry with their personal leadership's attempt to fast-track the particular bill. But the actual vote furthermore highlights how elements from the GOP with odds with party orthodoxy have already been augmented and also emboldened by the tea party success last November.
On Tuesday, with regard to example, the new, more conservative House additionally pulled from the particular floor the bill in which extended trade benefits to be able to several South American countries and voted to continue the program that helps workers who lose jobs to be able to offshoring retrain with regard to fresh ones.
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The actual moves level in order to any House Republican leadership still struggling to be able to come to grips with its very own rank and also file – and also the particular influence with the tea party will be a part of which, say experts.
"Anybody who listened to be able to tea party people around the particular country provides no excuse for being surprised which tea party Republicans voted against" the Patriot Act, says Charles Franklin, a political scientist from the actual University regarding Wisconsin in Madison. "How it will now play out is any little bit unclear, but the particular budget, the particular debt extension, the South Korean trade agreement might become other issues, and furthermore where these kinds of liberty issues come up where liberty-oriented conservatives don't see that as a political peg but they really do oppose government intrusion into private lives."
Strange bedfellows
The failure with the two-thirds vote – with 26 Republicans joining 122 Democrats in order to vote against that – fractured GOP unity on a key national-security issue as well as put a faction of the conservative House in line with liberals such as Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D) associated with Ohio, who urged the tea party movement in order to stay true in order to the ideals by defeating laws like the actual Patriot Act that give government the "deepest reach into our everyday lives."
"This was the particular first test with the vote-counting abilities of the House GOP leadership. And either they knew this was going to go down and also wanted in order to make any stage, or they were surprised, that means their own job in keeping their particular caucus in line will be likely to be as tough as the particular so-called 'Conventional Wisdom' crowd continues to be predicting," writes NBC News' First Read blog.
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