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| Jan. 12, 2015 -- Heritage
Foundation Action's Conservative Policy
Summit continued with a speech by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). "We
have to decide what kind of party we're going to be," Jordan said,
noting that what the Congress does will "help set a framework and a
context for 2016." |
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| The day wrapped up with a new
Member panel featuring (l-r) U.S. Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), moderator Tim
Chapman, U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe
(R-TX), and U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL). At one point moderator
Tim Campbell said the outcome of the 2014
elections could be interpreted as "it's time to govern" or as "the
American people are tired of the games." The answer, he said is people
are tired of the games. Palmer said of the
challenges facing the country, "We're not going to solve it in one
election." Ratcliffe observed that "the next two years is an
audition for the Republican Party." "People are very much
discontent[ed] with the status quo," he said. Loudermilk asked,
"What do we
as conservatives want America to look like?" Brat said he had run
"to put economics and ethics together." |
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| U.S. Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA)
speaks as moderator Tim Chapman looks on. Brat, who comes to
Congress after serving as an economic professor at Randolph-Macon
College, reminds one a bit of another economics professor who served in
Congress, former Majority Leader Dick Armey. |
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| National Review Online columnist
John Fund poses a question. |
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