House Minority Whip Blunt stepping down RAW STORY

Published: Wednesday November 5, 2008





Print This Email This House Minority Whip Roy Blunt announced that he will surrendering his post to Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), a Capitol Hill newspaper reports.



"The decision, which was expected, comes in the wake of Election Day losses that pushed the Republicans further into the House minority," Roll Call reports. "Blunt and Conference Chairman Adam Putnam (Fla.) appear to be taking the fall for those defeats, while Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) is expected to survive."



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Eric Cantor has done a great job as Chief Deputy Whip, Blunt said. He shows tremendous capacity ... to ask people to do things they dont want to do.



Asked what he will miss about being the Whip, Blunt said he would miss all of it. It is fun to be in the middle of every fight, every day, the Missouri Republican said. I was actually much more disruptive than I thought I could be.



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FULL ROLL CALL ARTICLE AT THIS LINK.



