Senate Republican conservatives say the departure of their South Carolina colleague Jim DeMint won?t hurt their cause partly because of the help he gave building it.
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DeMint, who is leaving the Senate after this year to take over as president of The Heritage Foundation, played a major role in pushing the Senate Republican caucus in a more conservative direction, the senators tell The Hill.?He helped school younger senators about how to gum up legislation opposed by conservatives, for example.?
?When I first got here there were very few of us that were pretty conservative, and now that group is quite a bit bigger,? said Idaho Sen. Jim Risch. ?I would say the infant that was here when I got here has become a toddler and maybe more. I feel much better of the size of the group that promotes the conservative message and agenda.?
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Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, vice chairman of the Senate Republican conference, agrees: ?I think there will be plenty of members left who will vigorously advance the positions that Jim has been advancing. In fact most of our conference is a pretty conservative conference,? he told The Hill.
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As for DeMint?s successor, nearly every member of the state?s Republican House delegation is a possibility, according to The New York Times.
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Attention is focusing on Rep. Tim Scott, who would be the only black member of the Senate.
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Source: http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/demint-departure-conservatives-numbers/2012/12/07/id/466868
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