CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics

CQ Roll Call Policy and Politics


How Rep. Ken Calvert Took One For the GOP Team

November 12, 2015

A mild-mannered Republican congressman from Southern California unwittingly helped torpedo the annual appropriations process this summer, by triggering a debate over display of the Confederate flag. Now, he and others in the GOP have to pull off a balancing act, steering a spending plan through a Congress intent on challenging President Obama's environmental agenda.