Andy Barr launches bid to lead House Financial Services with a plan to bridge GOP divide

"My objective would be to use the House Financial Services Committee chairmanship to end the battle between these two wings: Unite them and forge a lasting, durable, permanent center-right majority in the country that binds these two groups together in unified opposition to socialism, and unified opposition to big government liberalism," Barr added. "Everything we do in the committee should be about promoting free market capitalism as America First." He cited specific ways that the committee could help bridge the gap, including by messaging on credit card swipe fees ("competition is free market capitalism, but regulation is not"), free trade…