Election night 2022 brought a lot of hope among Washington Republicans that the new GOP majority would result in major victories.
But since that night, the House has instead stumbled through speaker fights and policy differences, prompting the No. 1 scorer of Republicans to call it a failed period.
“Despite the presence of more opportunities to vote on key issues and their majority in the House, Republicans generally failed to have any major positive effect on the overall state of affairs in Congress,” said Matt Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference’s chairman, in his annual ratings score card from the group’s Center for Legislative Accountability.
“Much of the year was wasted on continuing resolutions that kept in place Nancy Pelosi’s exorbitant spending policies and failed Congressional Review Act resolutions that let the corrupt bureaucracy in the executive branch maintain its …