Two years after sweeping into office in the tea party wave of 2010, noisily promising to be a wake-up call for GOP leaders on spending issues, many House Republican freshmen are trying a new tact: quiet unity.
They have responded with near silence as a group largely controlled by House Speaker John A. Boehner
removed four sometimes-defiant members, three of them freshmen, from plum committee assignments, partly in retribution for two years of rebellion that, at times, constrained and frustrated his leadership.
As John Boehner navigates fiscal cliff, House Republican freshmen largely quiet
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As John Boehner navigates fiscal cliff, House Republican freshmen largely quiet