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Some Republicans will go to great lengths to prove
they’ve heard the clarion call to rein in federal spending.
California Rep. Jerry Lewis,
anxious to regain the chairmanship of the powerful House Appropriations
Committee when Republicans return to the majority next year, embraced a
bid by Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake, his conservative
nemesis, to join the panel that dictates federal spending.
Messrs. Flake and Lewis once fought over money for a
swimming pool in the Californian’s district. During the Republicans’
last stint in the majority, the two regularly sparred over earmarks.
But Mr. Lewis, who has since embraced a ban on those
member-directed projects, needs to bolster his bona fides with fiscal
conservatives to reclaim the job he held when Republicans were bounced
from power in 2006, in part, for steep increases in federal spending.
Mr. Lewis needs a waiver to circumvent House Republican
rules that prevent lawmakers from serving more than six years atop a
committee. [.... Rep.
Lewis Seeks to Prove Fiscal-Conservative Cred]
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