With a vote on a House bill to avert large increases in flood insurance premiums scheduled for Tuesday evening, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, sent a letter to his Republican colleagues Tuesday saying the legislation is consistent with conservative ideals.

The letter followed a critical Wall Street Journal editorial, which said supporters were undoing a 2012 law designed to make the flood insurance program more self sufficient and that taxpayers "will eventually pay for undoing reform." One conservative group, Heritage Action, emailed the editorial to House members and reminded them that a no vote is the only conservative position.

Not so, said Scalise in a letter co-signed by two of his conservative Republican caucus colleagues, Reps. David McKinley, R-WVA., and Steve Southerland, R-Fla.

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