Is Shadegg running for majority leader?
I’ve not talked to him yet today. He’s chairman of the (House) Policy Committee. He’s No. 5 in House leadership right now. Shadegg is well respected and well liked and he’d be a great majority leader. I’m close to Mike Pence as well. He’d do a great job as well. A lot of people are encouraging them to run, but that’s a decision that they have to make. Would you support Shadegg over Pence? It’s too early. There are a lot of considerations that they’ll have to make, and I don’t want to be hasty at this point. How would you describe your relationship with DeLay? Well, his nickname is The Hammer and people have this image of him as bearing down and beating on people. And he’s really not like that. But I’ve never been close. Didn’t he pressure you on the Cuba travel ban issue? Oh yeah. We’ve certainly had our differences, and Cuba is a big one. We’ve had our differences in terms of the prescription drug benefit, for example. This whole kind of earmarking (budget expenditures) culture that w
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