In their never ending effort to consolidate political power, the Montana Senate leadership flopped in their effort to shuffle the cards for committee assignments by creating a new committee. Nine Republican Senators joined Democrats in opposing rules being proposed by senate leadership. The hang up was leadership’s proposal to create a new “Executive Branch Review Committee”. It’s not exactly clear what the role of the new committee was supposed to be but numerous senators argued that is was a “parking spot” for senators the right-wing leadership of the senate viewed as problematic. The nine Senators are: Sen Loge, Sen McKamey, Sen Kassmier, Sen Temple, Sen Gellespie, Sen Hunter, Sen Vance, Sen Lammers and Sen Ellsworth.