Kevin McCarthy is pulling out all the stops to win over the far-right members of his party. (via MaddowBlog)
of the U.S. House of Representatives, as it’s been for many years — and his vow was entirely redundant.“On the very first day of the new Republican-led Congress, we will read every single word of the Constitution aloud from the floor of the House — something that hasn’t been done in years.”might recall
There wasn’t any harm in the stunt, of course, but there wasn’t any point, either. It seemed to be the Republicans’ way of trying to tell the political world thatThe practice soon after fell out of favor, even under GOP majorities, in part because no one seemed to find any value in symbolic gesture, and in part because the process became more contentious than expected. As The Washington Post reported in 2011, “that no longer apply, including those that condoned slavery, angering some Democrats.
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