FREEDOM CAUCUS

Wow! A New Jersey Republican (Congressman Scott Garrett) who vows to limit government and support the Constitution! Earthquake!    Keep DDT in line, too, if needed.  Yesterday, Boehner's replacement JOINED! Ooorah!

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/the-freedom-caucus-historic-rebellion-213256

Here ya go. Written by Alan Greenblatt on October 18, 2015...excerpt.

Congress has never seen anything quite like the House Freedom Caucus. There’s always someone unhappy on Capitol Hill and it’s not unusual for malcontents to band together. A rebellion made up of members who refuse to work with either party, however, is something that hasn’t happened in living memory.
“This is an unusual and indeed unprecedented development in the history of the party,” says Geoffrey Kabaservice, a research consultant to the Main Street Partnership, a centrist GOP group.
Parties—particularly those with large majorities—almost inevitably split into factions. And congressional history is replete with examples of groups that balked at party leadership. But the insurgents we remember—the ones who weren’t quickly and completely marginalized—managed by and large to find common cause with members of the other party. Southern Democrats, for instance, forged a  “conservative coalition” with Republicans that dominated Congress for  much of the 20th century.
There hasn’t been a bloc like the Freedom Caucus for at least a century, one that refuses to work with its own party leadership while being steadfastly unwilling to reach across the aisle. “There have been groups that often broke from the party, but in doing so, they didn’t stand as a third force,” says former GOP Rep. Mickey Edwards. “This group is very different.”
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Boehner's replacement joins conservative Freedom Caucus

By AP June 14, 2016

http://www.yourohiovalley.com/story/32213753/boehners-replacement-joins-conservative-freedom-caucus
The 46-year-old former Army Ranger and businessman [Republican U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson] will serve the remaining seven months in Boehner's term and is the prohibitive favorite to be re-elected to a full two-year term this November.
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https://meadows.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/conservatives-form-house-freedom-caucus

Other members:

The HFC's founding members are Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI),  Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID), Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC).

Question being, is YOUR congress critter a member? WHY NOT? Would YOU be a member?