Late-night GOP meeting implodes into a heated shouting match: 'Disrespectful fool!'
Graves’s decision to bring up Harris’s old post helped turn a policy disagreement into a personal confrontation.
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A dispute over a proposed federal gas-tax suspension erupted into a shouting match among House Republicans, after Sam Graves brought up Andy Harris’s earlier criticism of the same idea. The clash adds to signs of tension in the GOP conference as leadership faces complaints about avoiding difficult votes.
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Transportation Committee chair who raised Harris’s old post during the dispute over the proposed gas-tax suspension.
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Freedom Caucus chair and proponent of suspending the federal gas tax, whose past criticism of the idea became the focus of the confrontation.
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