Andy Barr launches bid to lead House Financial Services with a plan to bridge GOP divide

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“My objective would be to use the House Financial Services Committee chairmanship to end the battle between these two wings: Unite them and forge a lasting, durable, permanent center-right majority in the country that binds these two groups together in unified opposition to socialism, and unified opposition to big government liberalism,” Barr added. “Everything we do in the committee should be about promoting free market capitalism as America First.” He cited specific ways that the committee could help bridge the gap, including by messaging on credit card swipe fees (“competition is free market capitalism, but regulation is not”), free trade...