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John Boehner

Three months after Florida Congressmen Richard Nugent and Daniel Webster joined two dozen other GOP reps in a failed attempt to oust John Boehner as Speaker of the House, Boehner now in his third term as Speaker has exacted his revenge on the two Florida reps by booting them from key positions in the House Rules Committee.

Washington Examiner, by Susan Ferrechio

Reps. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., will fill the positions, meaning that Webster and Nugent have been permanently ousted. The two lawmakers served on the Rules Committee in the 113th Congress, but were excluded from the roster approved by lawmakers in the hours after they voted against Boehner….

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