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After three very public failures in balloting before the full House, his end came quietly, by secret ballot, in a basement meeting with his fellow House Republicans. It is a fate that will make him a martyr for the party's right wing, which will view his defeat as further evidence of a party establishment that is insufficiently dedicated to conservative values.