Montana’s lone representative to the U.S. House, Matt Rosendale, remained on point Tuesday in the attempt to remove Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership for supporting Donald Trump’s impeachment.
Rosendale, seated in Congress just last week, initially called for Cheney’s resignation in a Monday tweet saying that Cheney had backed the president’s impeachment without notifying Republicans in advance. Cheney, chairwoman of the Republican Conference, is the third-ranking member in the House.
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