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MONROE — Yvonne Franklin of Loganville volunteered on the front desk, waved signs and made phone calls to help Monroe Republican Jody Hice get elected to the U.S. House last year.

She holds Hice in high esteem and believes he shares her conservative values, but Franklin is frustrated by Congress so far this year.

“What are you doing with regard to getting rid of the speaker or anything else?” she asked Hice last week. “You’re not getting a whole lot done.”

Hice and fellow freshman U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, a Cassville Republican, won open seats last year in part by getting to the right of large fields of GOP primary candidates, touting their willingness to shake up a broken Washington.

After two months in D.C., they have little to show for it.

Hice and Loudermilk have joined the House Freedom Caucus, a new group trying to pull the Republican caucus to the right. But they also took major heat at home for their first vote: to elect John Boehner as speaker of the House.

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