Co-Chairman Charlie Dent (PA) Co-Chairman Elise Stefanik (NY) | Co-Chairman Tom MacArthur (NJ) Preceded by Wednesday Group | |
Founded 1994; 23 years ago (1994) Ideology Centrism
Fiscal conservatism | ||
The Tuesday Group is an informal caucus of approximately 50 moderate Republican members of the House of Representatives in the 114th Congress (2015–2017). It was founded in 1994 in the wake of the Republican takeover of the House. The Republican House caucus was dominated by conservative Republicans and the Tuesday Group was founded to counterbalance that conservative trend. There were approximately 40 members when it was founded. In 2007 the Tuesday Group founded its own political action committee (PAC).
The co-chairs of the Tuesday Group were Charlie Dent, Robert Dold, and Adam Kinzinger from 2015–2017, and currently Dent, Tom MacArthur and Elise Stefanik from 2017.
Former co-chairs include Charlie Bass, Mike Castle, Jo Ann Emerson, Mark Kirk, and Fred Upton. Members have included Judy Biggert, Sherwood Boehlert, Tom Davis, Mike Fitzpatrick, Mark Foley, Jim Gerlach, Nancy Johnson, Sue Kelly, Jim Kolbe, Ray LaHood, Leonard Lance, Jim Leach, John McKernan, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Bob Michel, Todd Platts, Jim Ramstad, Dave Reichert, Joe Schwarz, Chris Shays, Rob Simmons, Olympia Snowe, James Walsh, and Heather Wilson
The other major GOP group of moderates in Congress is the Republican Main Street Partnership, which includes members of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House.
Predecessor
Members of its predecessor, the Wednesday Group, first founded in the House between 1961 and 1963 and then in the Senate around 1969, included John Anderson, Alphonzo Bell, Edward Brooke, Clifford Case, John Chafee, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinger (chair), Thad Cochran, Marlow Cook (Senate founder), John Cooper, John Dellenback, Slade Gorton, William Cohen, Barber Conable, Silvio Conte, Robert Ellsworth, Marvin Esch, Peter Frelinghuysen, Charles Goodell, Bill Gradison, Bill Green, Mark Hatfield, Margaret Heckler, John Heinz, Jack Javits, Nancy Kassebaum, Jim Leach, John Lindsay, Charles Mathias, Stewart McKinney, Pete McCloskey, Brad Morse (House founder), Bob Packwood, James Pearson, Charles Percy, Joel Pritchard, Ralph Regula, Ogden Reid, William Saxbe, Herman Schneebeli, Richard Schweiker, Hugh Scott, Abner Sibal, Arlen Specter, Robert Stafford, Charles Whalen, and Lowell Weicker.