Rep. Price eyed as possible Cantor successor

ATLANTA – Tom Price had already helped lead Georgia’s Republican party to majority status in the state Senate when he ran for Congress and won 10 years ago. In so doing, he gained a lot of home state admirers.

[Chuck] Clay says Price is well suited to potentially become the successor to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Virginia Republican who lost his seat Tuesday.

Price is already a member of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, and is vice chairman of the Budget Committee. He’s also in the House prayer caucus and tea party caucus — and was a vocal backer of last year’s government shut down.

“In Tom Price’s case, his conservative bona fides run as deep as anybody. So he would come in (as majority leader) with a lot of credibility one, with the more conservative members of the caucus. But also having a track record particularly with health care,” Clay said.

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