GOP Senators Rip Majority Leader Frist…
Senate Republicans were frantic. Returning from a two-week recess that had been dominated by a spike in gasoline prices -- and heading into a midterm election looking increasingly good for Democrats -- they began scrambling for ways to calm angry voters.
The date was Wednesday, April 26. Inside the Capitol complex, Senator John Thune, a first-term Republican from South Dakota, pressed his idea for a gas-tax holiday before a handful of colleagues who called themselves the Energy Working Group. But the group rejected the idea, leaving aides to the Republican leader, Senator Bill Frist, groping for another way to address the issue.
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