Republican Main Street Partnership

Formation and activity Rep. Amo Houghton of New York was the founder and chairman emeritus of the Republican Main Street Partnership. In 2004, the Republican Main Street Partnership proposed changes that would have moved the Republican Party's platform regarding abortion and stem-cell research in a moderate direction. Members of Congress affiliated with the partnership have been challenged in Republican primaries by members from the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and the Tea Party movement, among others. The partnership had a notably adversarial relationship with the fiscally conservative Club for Growth. In 2011, however, the director of the partnership stated that the two groups had "'come to an understanding'". The partnership affiliates with a super PAC called Defending Main Street. After Tiberi resigned from the House in 2018, Rodney Davis (IL–13) took over duties as chair. Dissolution of the Republican Main Street Caucus In the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections, the Democratic Party won a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats. This total was their largest gain of House seats in an election since the 1974 elections. On November 28, 2018, the Republican Main Street Caucus met with the Republican Main Street Partnership to ask why the partnership's super PAC had left $722,000 of its funds unspent. The partnership's chief executive officer, Sarah Chamberlain, said that it had spent $6million on 2018 campaigns and set aside the remaining $722,000 for 2020. Members of the caucus expressed concern that Chamberlain's compensation was 20percent of the partnership's operating expenses. and "mainstream". Shift to the right According to an article published in the New York Times in March 2024, the organization was moving to the political right. "The Republican Main Street Partnership ...directed half a million dollars...to defeat Representative Bob Good, a hard-right lawmaker from Virginia, making an unusual push to oust a sitting Republican member of Congress. The move [wa]s notable... because the candidate it [wa]s backing — John J. McGuire, a former member of the Navy SEALs and an election denier who has pledged fealty to former president Donald J. Trump and promised to bring a "biblical worldview" to Congress — bears so little resemblance to the kind of moderate Republican the Main Street Partnership was founded to support." Caucus Chairs ==Affiliated members of Congress==

As of January 2025, the partnership listed eight U.S. senators and 79 U.S. representatives as being affiliated with it. U.S. senators • Joni Ernst (IA) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Todd Young (IN) • Roger Marshall (KS) • Susan Collins (ME) • Tim Sheehy (MT) • John Curtis (UT) • Jim Justice (WV) • Shelley Moore Capito (WV) U.S. representatives • Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06) • David Valadao (CA-22) • Jay Obernolte (CA-23) • Young Kim (CA-40) • Ken Calvert (CA-41) • Jeff Hurd (CO-03) • Jeff Crank (CO-05) • Aaron Bean (FL-04) • John Rutherford (FL–05) • Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) • Laurel Lee (FL-15) • Mario Díaz-Balart (FL–26) • Carlos Giménez (FL-28) • Buddy Carter (GA-01) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Mike Simpson (ID–02) • Mike Bost (IL–12) • Jim Baird (IN-04) • Jefferson Shreve (IN-06) • Mark Messmer (IN-08) • Erin Houchin (IN-09) • Mariannette Miller-Meeks (IA-01) • Randy Feenstra (IA-04) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Derek Schmidt (KS-02) • Andy Barr (KY-06) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Julia Letlow (LA-05) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • John Moolenaar (MI–02) • Bill Huizenga (MI–04) • Lisa McClain (MI-09) • Brad Finstad (MN-01) • Tom Emmer (MN-06) • Pete Stauber (MN-08) • Michael Guest (MS-03) • Troy Downing (MT-02) • Mike Flood (NE-01) • Don Bacon (NE–02) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07) • Nick LaLota (NY-01) • Andrew Garbarino (NY-02) • Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) • Mike Lawler (NY-17) • Nick Langworthy (NY-23) • David Rouzer (NC-07) • Chuck Edwards (NC-11) • Julie Fedorchak (ND-AL) • Michael Rulli (OH-06) • Max Miller (OH-07) • Mike Turner (OH–10) • Troy Balderson (OH–12) • David Joyce (OH–14) • Stephanie Bice (OK-05) • Cliff Bentz (OR-02) • Brian Fitzpatrick (PA–01) • Ryan Mackenzie (PA-07) • Rob Bresnahan (PA-08) • Dan Meuser (PA-09) • Guy Reschenthaler (PA-14) • Dusty Johnson (SD-AL) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) • Dan Crenshaw (TX-02) • Jake Ellzey (TX-06) • Mónica de la Cruz (TX-15) • Peter Sessions (TX-17) • Blake Moore (UT-01) • Celeste Maloy (UT-02) • Mike Kennedy (UT-03) • Jen Kiggans (VA-02) • John McGuire (VA-05) • Dan Newhouse (WA-04) (Retiring at the end of the 119th Congress). • Michael Baumgartner (WA-05) • Carol Miller (WV-01) • Bryan Steil (WI-01) • Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) • Tony Wied (WI-08) == Former members ==

Representatives • Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota (retired in 2024) • Larry Bucshon, Indiana (retired in 2024) • Michael C. Burgess, Texas (retired in 2024) • Ken Calvert, California (disaffiliated) • Joseph Cao, Louisiana (lost reelection in 2010) • Mike Castle, Delaware (retired to run for United States Senate in 2010 unsuccessfully) • Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Oregon (lost reelection in 2024) • Mike Coffman, Colorado (lost reelection in 2018) • Barbara Comstock, Virginia (lost reelection in 2018) • Ryan Costello, Pennsylvania (retired in 2018) • Carlos Curbelo, Florida (lost reelection in 2018) • Rodney Davis, Illinois (disaffiliated) • Anthony D'Esposito, New York (lost reelection in 2024) • Charlie Dent, Pennsylvania (resigned in 2018) • John Duarte, California (lost reelection in 2024) • Mike Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania (retired in 2016) • Bob Gibbs, Ohio (retired in 2022) • Wayne Gilchrest, Maryland (lost renomination in 2008) • Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio (retired in 2022) • Jenniffer González-Colón, Puerto Rico (retired in 2024) • Richard Hanna, New York (retired in 2016) • Jamie Herrera Beutler, Washington (lost renomination in 2022) • Will Hurd, Texas (retired in 2020) • David Jolly, Florida (lost reelection in 2016) • John Joyce, Pennsylvania (disaffiliated) • John Katko, New York (retired in 2022) • Mike Kelly, Pennsylvania (disaffiliated) • Peter King, New York (retired in 2020) • Adam Kinzinger, Illinois (retired in 2022) • Frank LoBiondo, New Jersey (retired in 2018) • Mia Love, Utah (lost reelection in 2018) • Morgan Luttrell, Texas (disaffiliated) • Tom MacArthur, New Jersey (lost reelection in 2018) • Nancy Mace, South Carolina (disaffiliated) • Michael McCaul, Texas (disaffiliated) • David McKinley, West Virginia (lost renomination in 2022 due to redistricting) • Peter Meijer Michigan (lost renomination in 2022) • Marc Molinaro, New York (lost reelection in 2024) • Erik Paulsen, Minnesota (lost reelection in 2018) • Tom Petri, Wisconsin (retired in 2014) • Bruce Poliquin, Maine (lost reelection in 2018) • Jon Porter, Nevada (lost reelection in 2008) • Tom Reed (NY–23) (announced retirement in 2022, then resigned early) • Dave Reichert, Washington (retired in 2018) • Jim Renacci, Ohio (retired to run for United States Senate in 2018 unsuccessfully) • Scott Rigell, Virginia (retired in 2016) • Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida (retired in 2018) • Michelle Steel, California (lost reelection in 2024) • Elise Stefanik, New York (disaffiliated) • Steve Stivers, Ohio (resigned in 2021) • Scott Taylor, Virginia (lost reelection in 2018) • Pat Tiberi, Ohio (resigned in 2017) • Dave Trott, Michigan (retired in 2018) • Fred Upton, Michigan (retired in 2022) • Jeff Van Drew, New Jersey (disaffiliated) • Greg Walden, Oregon (retired in 2020) • Mimi Walters, California (lost reelection in 2018) • Mike Waltz, Florida (disaffiliated) • Brandon Williams, New York (lost reelection in 2024) • Kevin Yoder, Kansas (lost reelection in 2018) • David Young, Iowa (lost reelection in 2018) • Lee Zeldin, New York (retired in 2022) • Ryan Zinke, Montana (resigned to become United States Secretary of the Interior in 2017) == See also ==