GOP plans for controlling the House: Litmus tests and lobbyists

[Joanne98]

House Republican leadership is in drape measuring mode, and has started the planning for dealing with their newbie members. They want to make sure that these new members, many of them teabagger insurgents, remain under tight control, according to two new Roll Call articles <sub>.

First, all applicants for staff jobs with Republican members are being urged to take an ideological litmus test.

The House Republican Study Committee is asking people who want to work for a member of the conservative group next Congress to fill out ideological surveys on the websites of two conservative organizations....

The links to questionnaires on the websites of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and Leadership Institute’s conservativejobs.com site, are pasted into the RSC e-mail. The RSC claims more than 115 House Republicans as its membership....

The questionnaire on the Heritage Foundation website asks applicants questions about their views on foreign, economic and social policy.

Applicants are then asked to “rate” their level of agreement with individuals and organizations on the survey.

Individuals and organizations listed include former vice president Al Gore, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the Cato Institute, President George W. Bush and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/27/913806/-GOP-plans-for-controlling-the-House:-Litmus-tests-and-lobbyists</sub>