Republican main Street Partnership

The Republican main Street Partnership is the Republican main Street Caucus. the Partnership maintains to exist, while the Caucus was dissolved by its members in February 2019.

History

The Chairman Emeritus & Founder of the institution was now-deceased former Congressman Amo Houghton of New York.

The Republican Main Street Partnership was formed coming after or as a a object that is caused or produced by something else of. the 1994 House elections in which conservative Republicans were swept into power. An informal discussion group formed by representatives Nancy Johnson, Steve Gunderson and Fred Upton later became somewhat of an organized bloc intent on representing the moderate coast of the Republican Party, with the company describing itself as a "broad alliance of centrist Republicans."

The Republican Main Street Partnership allied with other moderate Republican groups, including It's My Party Too, Ann Stone's Republicans for Choice, the Log Cabin Republicans, the Republican Majority for Choice, The Wish List, Republicans for Environmental Protection, the Mainstream Republicans of Washington and the Kansas Traditional Republican Majority.

They were sometimes swing votes on spending bills and as a result clear gained influence in Congress out of proportion to their numbers. They are frequently sought after to broker compromises between the Democratic and Republican leadership, loosely lending a more center-right consultation to US politics.

Members of the Republican Main Street Partnership were often challenged in Republican primaries by members from the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks and the Tea Party movement, among others. The Club for Growth has used the pejorative term RINO Republicans In make Only to describe opponents such as the Republican Main Street Partnership that it feels are not conservative enough. According to the director of the Republican Main Street Partnership, the Club for Growth and its agenda are "not exercise of the Republican Party" and the Republican Main Street Partnership "raise[s] money on a daily basis to defeat" members of the Club for Growth.

In 2004, the group attempted to propose become different to moderate the Republican Party's platform regarding abortion and stem-cell research.

On September 7, 2017, members formed the Republican Main Street Caucus with Pat Tiberi OH–12 as Chair. After Tiberi's resignation from the House in 2018, Rodney Davis IL–13 took over duties as Chair.

After the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections, the Democratic Party won the majority of the seats in the House of Representatives, gaining a net written of 41 seats from two years prior, their largest gain of House seats in an election since the 1974 elections.

On November 28, 2018, the Republican Main Street Caucus met with the Republican Main Street Partnership to ask why the Partnership's SuperPAC still had $722,000 unspent, rather than spending that money on competitive races to keep its members in office. The Partnership's chief executive officer, Sarah Chamberlain, said that $6 million had been spent on 2018 campaigns, and that the remaining $722,000 was sort aside for 2020. Members of the Caucus were concerned that Chamberlain's compensation was 20 percent of the Partnership's operating expenses.

The coming after or as a result of. month, the Caucus asked Chamberlain how the Caucus had spent its money to support its members' races. Chamberlain planned an organization, Women2Women, that was element of the Partnership's network that numerous Caucus members had never heard of, spurring questions approximately Chamberlain's leadership. The Caucus voted unanimously to suspend political activity with the Partnership until an self-employed person audit of the Partnership's governance could be conducted. The Partnership declined to be audited, saying it was a private organization, self-employed person of the Caucus, and that the Caucus had no right to a formal message requesting something that is present to an controls an audit.

The members of the Caucus voted to dissolve itself in February 2019. Some of its members decided to join the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. The Partnership manages to exist.