An influential aide to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) who ruffled the feathers of GOP leadership is letting Heritage dictate her future.
The senator's office lost Rachel Bovard this month after she took the position of director of policy services at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank. Under Lee, Bovard served as the policy director for the Senate Republican Steering Committee and caused a stir in July with an email that aggravated Senate GOP leadership. According to POLITICO, Bovard's email, which advocated the use procedural tactics to force a vote on Obamacare, caused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to call a special sitdown to dismiss the notion.
Prior to joining Lee and the Steering Committee, Bovard also worked as policy director for Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and served as Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) legislative director. Her time with Paul earned her the designation as one of the "most influential Washington women under 35" by the National Journal in 2013.
Bovard had been working on the Hill since 2006, first for Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.) and then for Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) before joining Paul in 2011.
