Republican Main Street Partnership
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Main Street Partnership
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| Chairman | Amo Houghton |
| Founded | 1994 |
| Ideology |
Centrism Fiscal conservatism |
| Political position | Center to Center-right |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Seats in the Senate |
4 / 100
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| Seats in the House |
65 / 435
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The Main Street Partnership is a group of centrist and moderately conservative members of the United States Republican Party within the United States Congress. The group is the rough equivalent of the Blue Dog Democrats.
Members of the group are often labeled as RINOs by conservative Republicans and are often challenged in Republican primaries by the Club for Growth, FreedomWorks, and the Tea Party movement, among others.
The Main Street Partnership was formed following the 1994 House elections, in which conservative Republicans were swept into power. An informal discussion group formed by Representatives Nancy Johnson, Steve Gunderson, and Fred Upton later became somewhat of an organized bloc intent on representing the moderate wing of the Republican Party. The partnership is currently composed of moderates such as Susan Collins and Mark Kirk; some members would fit most of the criteria of a conservative, such as Thad McCotter and Brian Bilbray.
The Main Street Partnership has allied with other moderate Republican groups, including Christine Todd Whitman's It's My Party Too, Ann Stone's Republicans for Choice, the Log Cabin Republicans, the Republican Majority For Choice, The Wish List, Republicans for Environmental Protection, the Mainstream Republicans of Washington, and the Kansas Traditional Republican Majority.
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