Karl Rove attacks renegade House conservative

Published October 11, 2015 9:47pm ET



Karl Rove singled out a Kansas member of the House on Sunday and pointed to him as an example of why Republicans need to enforce discipline against their members when running the House.

“The rules are meant to keep the majority’s strength together, and one of the problems is that we have some members — [Kansas Rep. Tim] Huelskamp for example, he was tossed off the Agriculture Committee,” Rove said on Fox News Sunday, referencing an incident that took place in 2012 when Speaker John Boehner purged several Republicans from their committee assignments. Huelskamp was removed from both the Agriculture and the Budget Committees.

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