Amash: Boehner won't receive 'much welcome' in my district

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) warned Wednesday that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) may not be welcome in his home district after stripping the freshman congressman of his seat on the House Budget Committee.

“If Speaker Boehner wants to come back to my district, he’s not going to be met with very much welcome,” Amash told reporters Wednesday, according to the National Review.

Last week, Amash warned Boehner that his removal from his preferred committee would ultimately "backfire" on GOP leaders.

"I don’t relish this situation, but if one thing is clear based on the response from the grass roots, it’s that leadership’s actions will backfire," Amash wrote in a post to his Facebook page. "If they think kicking me off of a committee will lead me to abandon my principles or stifle my bipartisan work toward a balanced budget, I have a message for them: You’re dead wrong."

On Friday, he signed a letter with Reps. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) and David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) — who had also been removed from their committee seats — asking for "a full and complete written explanation of the rationale for removing us from our current committee assignments, including any 'scorecards' presented to the Steering Committee to justify our removals."

Boehner responded Monday, saying “there is no scorecard or any other single criteria used to determine committee assignments.”

The removals have become a brewing controversy within the Republican ranks, with Tea Party groups and organizations like the Club for Growth rallying to the defense of the deposed lawmakers.

Some Republicans are also upset that Boehner has already signaled a willingness to compromise with President Obama on increased tax revenues in a deficit-reduction deal.

American Majority, a Virginia-based conservative activist group, said this week they would lobby Republicans in the House not to vote for Boehner to retain his gavel.

Last Friday, Amash said he would not commit to voting for Boehner as Speaker.

"We're going to see how the next few weeks go and whether he's willing to make amends," Amash told CNN's "Starting Point." "Right now I'm not very happy with the Speaker."

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