Tuesday Group

The Tuesday Group is an informal caucus of approximately 24 moderate Republican members of the United States House of Representatives.[8] It was founded in 1994 in the wake of the Republican takeover of the House. The Republican House caucus was dominated by conservative Republicans, and the Tuesday Group was founded to counterbalance that conservative trend. There were approximately 40 members when it was founded.[9] In 2007 the Tuesday Group founded its own political action committee.[10] The caucus has also been going by the name Republican Governance Group from 2020.

Not to be confused with Tuesday Club.
Tuesday Group
Co-ChairsJohn Katko (NY)
Fred Upton (MI)
Founded1994 (1994)
Preceded byWednesday Group
IdeologyFiscal conservatism[1][2]
Factions:
Liberalism[1][2][3][note 1]
Moderate conservatism[1][4]
Political positionCenter[5][6] to center-right[7]
National affiliationRepublican Party
Colors  Red
Seats in the House
24 / 435
Of the Republican Seats
24 / 212

The co-chairs of the Tuesday Group were Charlie Dent, Robert Dold and Adam Kinzinger from 2015 to 2017,[8] and Dent, Tom MacArthur and Elise Stefanik from 2017.[11] MacArthur resigned on May 23, 2017, due to disagreement among members over the American Health Care Act of 2017.[12] John Katko was elected as a co-chair from November 7, 2017.[13] Dent resigned from the House on May 12, 2018. In the 116th Congress, the co-chairs were Susan Brooks, John Katko, and Fred Upton.

Former co-chairs include Charlie Bass, Mike Castle, Jo Ann Emerson, Mark Kirk, and Fred Upton.[9][14] Members have included Judy Biggert, Sherwood Boehlert, Tom Davis, Mike Fitzpatrick, Mark Foley, Jim Gerlach, Nancy Johnson, Sue Kelly, Jim Kolbe, Ray LaHood, Leonard Lance, Jim Leach, John McKernan, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Bob Michel, Todd Platts, Jim Ramstad, Dave Reichert, Joe Schwarz, Chris Shays, Rob Simmons, Olympia Snowe, James Walsh, and Heather Wilson.[9][10][15]

The other major GOP group of moderates in Congress was the Republican Main Street Caucus, which included members of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House, before it dissolved in 2019.

In the second impeachment of Donald Trump, several members of the Tuesday Group, including Adam Kinzinger, Jaime Herrera Beutler, John Katko and Fred Upton voted for impeachment. Other members such as Brian Fitzpatrick denounced the President's behavior, saying "“President Trump’s actions, behavior, and language are unacceptable and unbecoming of the office he holds” and instead introduced a censure resolution that they believed could pass with more bipartisan support.[16]

Electoral Results
Election year Overall seats Republican seats ±
2018
27 / 435
27 / 199
 -15
2020
24 / 435
24 / 212
 -3

Membership

Current members
Arkansas

California

Florida

Illinois

Indiana

Michigan

Nebraska

New Jersey

New York

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Puerto Rico

West Virginia

Washington

Former members

Predecessor

Members of its predecessor, the Wednesday Group, first founded in the House between 1961 and 1963 and then in the Senate around 1969, included John Anderson, Alphonzo Bell, Edward Brooke, Clifford Case, John Chafee, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinger (chair), Thad Cochran, Marlow Cook (Senate founder), John Cooper, John Dellenback, Slade Gorton, William Cohen, Barber Conable, Silvio Conte, Robert Ellsworth, Marvin Esch, Peter Frelinghuysen, Charles Goodell, Bill Gradison, Bill Green, Mark Hatfield, Margaret Heckler, John Heinz, Jack Javits, Nancy Kassebaum, Jim Leach, John Lindsay, Charles Mathias, Stewart McKinney, Pete McCloskey, Brad Morse (House founder), Bob Packwood, James Pearson, Charles Percy, Joel Pritchard, Ralph Regula, Ogden Reid, William Saxbe, Herman Schneebeli, Richard Schweiker, Hugh Scott, Abner Sibal, Arlen Specter, Robert Stafford, Charles Whalen and Lowell Weicker.[49][50][51][52][53]

See also

Notes
  1. The Tuesday Group is often referred to as the liberal Republicans or the moderate Republicans. On the contrary, the Blue Dog Coalition is often referred to as the conservative Democrats.

References
  1. Craig Shirley, ed. (2017). Citizen Newt: The Making of a Reagan Conservative. Harper Collins. Moderate to liberal Republicans, such as those in the Tuesday Group (formerly known as the Tuesday Lunch Bunch), ...
  2. "Tuesday Mourning". New Republic. 29 January 2011. During the Bush years, however, the group began to struggle. In 2004, it named then-Representative Mark Kirk of Illinois chair, in part to develop Kirk’s “Suburban Strategy,” which was premised on the idea that Republicans could broaden their appeal by catering to socially liberal but fiscally conservative suburban voters.
  3. "Three minor parties merge ahead of April elections". The Hill. 7 November 2007. Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.), a longtime member and former co-chairman of the Tuesday Group, said lawmakers launched the PAC to help vulnerable centrists as well as liberal-leaning Republicans running for open congressional seats.
  4. Harold F. Bass Jr., ed. (2019). Historical Dictionary of United States Political Parties. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 326. TUESDAY GROUP. A caucus of moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives that organized in the mid-1990s.
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