U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) doesn’t fit the media mold for the typical chairman of the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus. He was born in New York to parents who had immigrated just a few years before. He went to high school in Manhattan, became a doctor, and today serves as deep-blue Maryland’s only Republican congressman.
If that’s not enough, Harris is an appropriator — and not just rank and file, but a “cardinal,” or chairman, of one of appropriations’ 12 subcommittees.
‘The beauty is that we could reopen the government Jan. 3, when we take over. So it would basically be three days nobody’s working.’
Hewaselectedchairmanataperiloustimeforthecaucus,whichturns10inJanuary.Hispredecessor,Rep.BobGoodofVirginia,lostabitterlyclosesummerprimaryafterhewastargetedbyrankingmembersoftheTrumpcampaign.RepublicanHouseSpeakerMikeJohnson’sbidtoattachsixmonthsofgovernmentfundingtotheelection-protectingSAVEActjustexplodedonthelaunchpad.AndRepublicansarestaringdownthebarrelofamassiveChristmasomnibusthatthatthreatenstotiethenextadministration’shandsformostof202
