Pfluger challenges Emmer for minority whip position
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- The Hill reports: “Republican Study Committee Chair August Pfluger (R-Texas) is running against House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) for the minority whip position after Democrats won control of the lower chamber.…”
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