Pye didn’t love the budget bill, either, but without it there were no tax cuts. So Pye blasted out an email pressuring members of Congress to support the bill; those that didn’t would take a hit to their score as a “true conservative.” When he got back from lunch, there was a banker’s box on the couch in his office. No note, no return address. Inside was every trophy FreedomWorks had awarded Justin Amash.
A five-term congressman who represents a swath of west Michigan, Amash, 39, is about as conservative — albeit with a libertarian streak — as any politician in America. In 2015 he co-founded the House Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative and libertarian members who wanted changes to the way Congress operated and were willing to hold the federal government hostage to make their point.
Amash remembers his father, Attallah, telling him he was forced from his home in the town of Ramla by armed Israeli soldiers. It was 1948 and the Arab-Israeli war was underway. The Amash family, including Attallah and his future wife, Marie, sought refugee status to move to the U.S., and the pastor of a Christian church in Muskegon, a sleepy town on the shores of Lake Michigan, sponsored the Amashes. They arrived in America with $17.
Over time, Amash fell in with a small clique of libertarian-minded politicians like Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul. For years he held the record for longest active streak without missing a vote, a title he relinquished in 2017 when he forgot to vote on an amendment because he was yakking with reporters just off the House floor, ending his streak ended at 4,293. But he had no qualms defying the party leadership on issues like government surveillance or marijuana legalization.
Ya know... it’s ok if you simply don’t like Trump - it doesn’t require turning sell-outs (Amash) into some sort of hero. Did you ask him if his constituents in Michigan (a manufacturing Mecca... btw) have any conflict with enriching himself by offshoring to China?
Keep up the good work Representative Amash!!! We appreciate the detailed rational of your votes on Twitter.
Amash is all talk no action. I hope we vote him out.
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