They seemed like two relatively routine bills.
Instead, they turned into another House Republican flame out — and a demonstration that with such a slim majority, just about any hiccup right now can stall the GOP agenda.
On Tuesday night, it was a handful of moderates with labor union ties who blocked a pair of bills. One dealt with pay for tipped workers and another focused on job training after work hours.
That failure on relatively narrow bills spells trouble for the ongoing chatter about trying to pass a major Republican bill this year along party lines.
While they ...