Main Factions Of Republican Party Flashcards
What are the three main factions?
-Tuesday Group
-Republican Study Committee
-Freedom Caucus
What is the Tuesday group?
-moderate/centrist group
-pragmatic + solution orientated approach approach to gov
How did they want to respond to issues?
-find bipartisan approaches to issues
What is an example of their impact on the Republican Party?
-2017 co-chair Charlie Dent made negotiations with 2 others in the new amendments made to the American Heath Care Act
What was the aim of this amendment?
-to help lower the healthcare costs
What is the Republican Study Committee?
-largest caucus in the 2020 house with 147 conservative republicans
What does the RSC support?
-limited gov, high defence spending, traditional values, the 2nd amendment + balancing federal budget
What did the RSC do in 2015?
-reacted to the SC legalising of same sex marriage
What did the RSC call this?
-‘the loss of Democrat self-government’
What were their policy positions in 2021?
-building a wall on the southern border
-maintaining the Hyde Amendment
What is the freedom caucus?
-most right wing with 30 members
What does it support?
-social conservatism - abortion + LGBTQ+ rights
-passion for small gov + libertarianism
What do their members represent?
-strongly partisan districts
What did the freedom caucus do in 2017?
-strongly opposed the American Healthcare Act that would replace affordable care act
-as it failed to repeal some elements of the 2010 one
What did they do in 2020?
-sided with Trump + opposed the NDAA as didn’t incl. provision to repeal Section 230;
-NDAA = national defence authorisation act 2021
-section 230 = communications act 1934
