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Josh Huder

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3 years

Something that completely evaded me when I initially read Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s accusation (that some members were giving reconnaissance tours of the Capitol prior to the assault): The public have not been allowed in the building since March 2020.

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I didn't think you were supposed to be giving tours of the Capitol at all because of COVID restrictions.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

The Senate has voted on four amendments this Congress. 4. The Senate's "legislative agenda" does not functionally exist.

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5 years

“GOP senators are already complaining about the impeachment process wasting time and crowding legislative items off the agenda.” - Expect senators to emphasize this narrative more if House impeaches POTUS. Reality is different. Not doing much before.

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Josh Huder

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9 months

Kevin McCarthy is the first Speaker in almost 5 decades to effectively lose control of the House floor. Other speakers struggled to pass ambitious bills and party priorities. But this leadership's inability to bring popular bills to the floor demonstrates profound weakness.

Jake Sherman

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NEW — House Republican leadership sources tell me they do not believe they can pass the rule to consider the Defense appropriations bill. Big defeat as the legislation was supposed to come up this week.

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3 years

The “parliamentarian shouldn’t determine what the Senate does!” crowd is really overlooking the “parliamentarian is serving as political cover for majority party lacking votes to pass a core policy” angle.

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Josh Huder

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2 years

Both pieces have major flaws, IMO. Just a few: 1) overestimates staff influence; 2) underestimates party networks; 3) poor understanding of actual staff work. Thus, their conclusions are really backwards. Undermining staff only worsens this problem.

Josh Barro

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As @mattyglesias notes, left-wing political staffers have too much influence over what Democrats do, pushing them to do and say unpopular things. If Democrats start letting congressional office staff unionize, that problem will only get worse.

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3 years

"Read the bill!!!" Meanwhile, back in reality:

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3 years

There's a real simple procedural axiom that the debt limit debate has so far ignored: When you're political opposition tells you how to process a bill through Congress, don't do that.

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Josh Huder

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4 months

I've been meaning to put this in context since I saw it weeks ago. This statistic is insane. And I don't think people fully grasp how insane it is. So a brief explainer on why it's insane:

Niels Lesniewski

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4 months

House Republicans had the worst party unity last year since 1982, according to our CQ Vote Studies statistics.

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Josh Huder

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8 months

Harsh but true. The GOP's Speaker drama has a striking lack of negotiation and compromise. Speakers are compromise candidates, never unanimously chosen. Rather, speakers broker, compromise, and negotiate their way to the gavel. As a whole, the House GOP is not doing this.

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3 years

If it’s true, expulsion of that/those members is completely warranted.

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5 years

I do not understand the Pelosi has a constitutional responsibility to impeach argument. For one, no she doesn't.

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7 years

There's a "self-driving" van in Arlington. Except it's not a self-driving van. A real person w/ a seat cover over their head is driving it.

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7 years

I tried talking to the driver - but he blew through a red light and drove off. Could this all be a prank??? @nbcwashington

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Josh Huder

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3 years

Very difficult to do when Congress refused to recess.

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3 years

Obama was such a chump for not recess appointing somebody after Scalia died

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2 months

Rather than simply allow members to sign the petition, or vote against a PQ, or other maneuver, Johnson has raised the specter of forming a procedural coalition with Democrats to overrun GOP opposition, potentially the most grievous betrayal of partisan politics in the modern era

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3 years

Senators cloistered in cloakrooms. Multiple negotiations and dimensions under discussion. Unclear what deal will emerge. It’s a throwback to how the Senate used to work before filibusters became ubiquitous.

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1 year

Filibustering a committee replacement prevents the majority from exercising its parliamentary rights. If a majority cannot set the agenda, there's little point in being the majority. This is as extreme as obstruction can get.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

In sum: Pelosi cannot make decisions by fiat for the House of Representatives. She doesn't have the votes, so it is too early. The House needs more information. The House can get it without a formal inquiry. The House decides its constitutional responsibilities.

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Josh Huder

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7 years

Pelosi & Schumer wanted a 3-month lift to debt and CR because it devours the legislative schedule. This engulfs an enormous amount of time.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Two, it's not her call. The House decides impeachment. The Speaker has powers but the House is arbiter. If 218 members of her caucus were behind an impeachment inquiry, it'd be happening. It's not. She's not holding back a silent majority.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Time to face it: the Senate is a fading institution. It’s legislative imprint has waned. Genuine debate and amendment has disappeared. Senators’ individual power is in steep decline. High profile pols don’t want to be senators because the Senate is no longer appealing.

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Bullock’s entry into presidential race gives Dems 22 candidates - and at least the third who could have been a competitive candidate for a 2020 Senate seat instead

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5 years

If the parties are so ideologically consistent and polarized, why would the Senate Majority Leader use scarce floor time on doomed minority party bills? The only policy that unites Republicans is opposing Democrats, which is to say they functionally lack a policy platform.

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🚨🚨🚨McConnell says Senate will vote on the Green New Deal 🚨🚨🚨

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2 months

Johnson’s decision to use Rules Committee to advance these foreign aid bills is curious. It is not surprising he doesn’t have the votes in Rules. He hasn’t for weeks. It also makes him uniquely accountable for betraying his right flank in a way a discharge petition doesn’t.

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3 months

A lot of very smart people have already pointed out lots of problems with this ruling. My problem with it is that the very premise of the ruling is not true. Physical presence in the chamber has *not* constituted a quorum for all 235 years of congressional history.

Kyle Cheney

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👀 Wow: A federal court in Texas has ruled that Congress violated the Quorum Clause of the constitution when it passed bills relying on proxy votes. Considering SCOTUS declined a related case brought by Kevin McCarthy, this seems unlikely to stand.

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Josh Huder

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3 years

As the Chair of the Joint Session, VP Pence has the authority to reinterpret processes when events fall into an ambiguous procedural space. Pence deserves a ton of credit for reinterpreting procedures in this manner. It just as easily could have been the opposite.

Kyle Cheney

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3 years

It's 2:55 a.m. and I just figured out how Pence massaged the rules of the Electoral College counting session to avoid introducing the "rival" slates of Trump electors. These are the instructions VPs have given out at the start in each of the last 5. Note the difference?

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5 years

Five. If you think that an entirely symbolic exercise is the "right thing to do," I fear you misunderstand Congress. It almost never does the right thing for principled reasons. It acts on the politically right thing. Congress lacks innate morality.

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Josh Huder

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It doesn't bode well for the perceived independence or legitimacy of the Supreme Court, even if it has waned in recent years. Imagining any political minority accepting Court decisions prima facie from this conspicuously partisan process is increasingly difficult.

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5 years

Most of the recent Republican retirements are not seats Democrats can realistically win. It's a different kind of erosion for the Republicans Party as most of these seats will flip from establishment to Trump Republicans.

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5 years

Six. A totally symbolic impeachment vote with a dozen-plus Democrats opposed that attracts less than one handful of Republican support equates to roughly the weakest symbol the House could send. A signal this weak would likely elevate the President's political standing.

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2 years

Pelosi orchestrated the passage of the the largest climate investment in U.S. history ($35b), while Republicans held the Senate and the White House no less.

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When the gerontocracy (Pelosi is 82) talks about doing something about climate change "for the children":

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Josh Huder

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3 years

Inciting a mob to sack the Legislative Branch is literally a dangerous precedent. Impeaching presidents inciting mobs to sack the Legislative Branch is an excellent and (evidently) necessary precedent.

Lindsey Graham

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3 years

@realDonaldTrump Any attempt to impeach President Trump would not only be unsuccessful in the Senate but would be a dangerous precedent for the future of the presidency. It will take both parties to heal the nation.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Pelosi won't move for a vote on impeachment until the case is so strong all House Democrats (or 99.5%) are unified on impeachment. She likely won't move for an inquiry until 220, 225 strongly support it.

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5 years

Seven. If the argument is, "yes, but an inquiry would produce information." Sure. But the current investigations also produce information. And further, committees now hold several powers that previous congresses didn't without initiating an inquiry.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Congressional majorities don’t do this. They do not give their seats at the table to their minority counterparts. This is stunning, weird, and likely indicative of a president abandoned by his Republican colleagues in Congress.

Jake Sherman

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5 years

CORNYN says an eventual deal needs to be cut by Schumer, Pelosi and Trump.

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Josh Huder

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4 months

The Rules Committee rebellion under Speaker Johnson is the biggest untold story in American politics. The House has basically operated through suspension procedures because the Speaker lacks a working majority at Rules. It's turned the House into a supermajority body.

Melanie Zanona

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4 months

“It is gonna come up,” Johnson said at a Congressional Institute event, per transcript obtained by CNN. “There’s a few subsets of members you have concerns for various reasons, but we’re gonna probably run it on suspension. And I think you’re gonna get a very high vote tally.”

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5 years

Four. This would produce zero pressure on Senate Republicans. Ignoring it would be extremely easy. Therefore, impeachment be an entirely symbolic exercise.

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6 years

Gingrich was more than a partisan. He gutted the institution’s capability to serve as an effective representative branch.

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Josh Huder

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4 years

McConnell will absolutely lose the Senate to fill a SCOTUS vacancy, and that’s probably what’s about to happen.

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4 years

Susan Collins about to be in a hell of a bind.

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3 years

People realize Manchin represents a state that gave Joe Biden just 29.7% of the vote, right? I feel like I’m living in the twilight zone right now.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Three. If she currently pushed impeachment, it'd force Democrats to take very uncomfortable political positions. If she forced the vote anyway, at best she'd lose at least a dozen Democrats but likely several more.

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3 years

The hard truth is Democrats lack a procedural majority. Manchin is a functional indy, voting w/ Democrats often enough but thwarting hardball ambitions b/c he represents a 70% Republican state. Democrats aren't feckless (just look at the House). They don't have enough seats.

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3 years

Anyone who’s ever been a Republican understands why @MichaelSteele is fulminating on @DeadlineWH right now, because he’s telling the obvious truth: the Republicans would throw over the filibuster in a second if meant more power for them. The GOP counts on Dems being feckless.

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3 years

With 7 Republicans voting for impeachment, and possibly more to come, it is already the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.

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Josh Huder

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1 year

There some rumblings of using a discharge procedure to raise the debt ceiling. Everything about this would be weird. The discharge process is clumsy and slow and it's not structured to accommodate on-the-fly political negotiations typical of a debt limit suspension/increase.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Eight. If we argue for more information through an impeachment inquiry then you tacitly admit that it's too early b/c more info is needed before it can happen. It is also a tacit acceptance that the politics have not come around to impeachment yet.

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Josh Huder

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2 years

A big under the radar story.

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2 years

Not only does Biden now pass Trump in first-year judicial nominations, but his commitment to professional diversity has been outstanding. Of 73 noms: 21 public defenders, 16 civil rights lawyers and 5 labor lawyers.

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Josh Huder

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4 years

Never had to look up “catastrophic quorum” in the House before but here we are. With multiple members testing positive for coronavirus, what happens if too many members get sick? Rule XX, clause 5(c): the House can declare a catastrophic quorum.

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Josh Huder

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8 months

The other most surprising event yesterday was McCarthy's refusal to negotiate. It's possible Jeffries' terms were too steep, but nothing stopped McCarthy from reaching out to a dozen Democrats individually. That is exactly how Cannon staved off the 1st coup attempt in 1909.

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Josh Huder

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1 year

McCarthy's opponents have neither identifiable policy preferences nor specific demands. He has to buy them up individually. That takes (1) time; and (2) more time. and (3) lots of promises.

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Josh Huder

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2 months

This is a step further than the sins of John Boehner and Paul Ryan, who were run out of office for using Ds to pass spending bills. Johnson would work with Dems to snuff out opposition from his GOP colleagues.

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Josh Huder

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2 years

Voters support deficit reduction, oppose entitlement cuts, support taxing the rich, oppose tax increases, support good GDP growth, oppose inflation, support stimulus checks, and oppose excessive gov't spending. Now, let's discuss how voters understand the economy.

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Josh Huder

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3 years

This is legitimately insane. These kinds of punishments are normally reserved for gross misconduct or extreme betrayals of party. Voting for an infrastructure bill is neither of those things.

Jonathan Allen

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3 years

👀 . @PunchbowlNews reports House GOP discussing whether to strip committee assignments from the baker’s dozen who voted for bipartisan infrastructure bill. If so, House GOP would send a message that members’ votes belong to the caucus not constituents.

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Josh Huder

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4 years

The American people demand statistics! 65% of the Senate and 70% of the House have served 10 years or less.

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The American people are demanding term limits! Serving in Congress shouldn't be a lifetime appointment. Great crowd in Raleigh, NC.

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Josh Huder

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4 years

If you aren't geeking out about this concurrent war powers resolution, you aren't alive. The House is playing constitutional hardball. The War Powers Act (WPA) contained a provision stating Congress could remove forces via concurrent resolution...

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Josh Huder

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5 years

In either case, it is a latent understanding that impeachment is currently a losing issue (not enough votes) and without further information, is a nonstarter. Which, returning to the original point, makes the premise of the entire argument pretty weak.

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5 years

So it's not clear that a formal impeachment inquiry substantially boosts the House's ability to gain information it seeks, at least at this current phase of investigation.

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5 years

And nine, if the politics are premature, the impeachment discussion highlights the political vulnerabilities of initiating an inquiry. Currently, impeachment is politically costly and only marginally beneficial to gathering the information the House currently seeks.

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Josh Huder

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5 years

Rep. Conaway (R-TX) did nothing to defend the President during his 5 minutes. Seems notable.

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5 years

David Mayhew's epic rant on Congress in historical perspective is worth your time. @CSPAN

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Josh Huder

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2 years

Instead, congressional staff are best understood as information conduits, not information sources. Why? Because it is impossible to be a policy expert in 15-20+ issue areas. Staff simply don't have the time to develop that expertise.*

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Josh Huder

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6 years

This is a pretty clear case where Democrats don't know the rules well enough. Grassley's assertion they can only vote in executive session is wrong. Only Blumenthal seems to be pushing back, and its pretty weak. If they knew the rules, they'd go to the mattresses.

James Wallner

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6 years

Sorry. Senate Rule XXVI, paragraph 5(b) authorizes a vote to go into closed session, contrary to Grassley's assertions that it only applies to executive session.

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2 years

It's assumed congressional staff are policy experts. Most often they're not. They know a lot more than the average person. But particularly in personal offices, staff are young, inexperienced, and have a ton to learn.

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1 year

At this point, bargaining gets very tricky. Promising one member a subcommittee gavel denies another, who now needs to be bought up with something else. This is where sinning the speakership becomes a whack-a-mole situation: new problems emerge when old problems resolve.

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2 years

So what would weakening staff resources/pay/benefits do? It would ensure congressional staff were younger, less knowledgeable, and less experienced.

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Josh Huder

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6 years

So the Ocasio-Cortez, “ready for Congress,” debate. First, nobody is prepared for Congress. From a policy perspective, it’s literally impossible. Nobody is “expert” or even “informed” on all the issues Congress considers.

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Josh Huder

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6 years

The House approved no open rules, OK’d only 35% of offered amendments, and changed bills w/o a vote 18 times. Literally among the least deliberative sessions in US history. It is the antithesis of free and democratic debate.

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First session House Rules Committee--51 str. rules, 59 closed. 2,572 proposed amendments, 889 (~34.56%) allowed on the floor, 18 considered as adopted.

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Josh Huder

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8 months

Don't be fooled, empowering McHenry will *not* lead to coalition government. Rs won't give Ds organizational powers, chairs, etc. More committee-centric governing could occur, which could create more ad hoc coalitions to advance bills... But this is not a West Wing episode.

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Josh Huder

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3 years

The fact Joe Manchin votes with Democrats at all is a small miracle in today’s partisan climate. Democrats are lucky to have him. But it also means catering to his political style. If Democrats don’t, then they don’t have 50 votes.

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Democrats are so desperate to win GOP votes - not for any procedural reason, just so they CAN SAY THEY DID - that they've let the GOP control the entire negotiation for months and months, wasting a huge percentage of their time as the majority

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Comparing today to 1982 is nuts because in 1982 partisan polarization did not exist. You would struggle to find a political observer arguing parties were fundamental to elections or governing.

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5 years

Senator Sasse's prescient 2018 take on his 2019 emergency declaration vote.

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2 years

Put simply, members taking unpopular stances is not a staff problem. And if anything, weakening staff the past 30 years has *amplified* the problem.

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6 years

During an interview I was asked what kind of factor the status of Kavanaugh's nomination would have on "the base." Any voter who is aware a SCOTUS nominee is pending before the Senate is likely already showing up to the polls and already know who they're voting for regardless.

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Trump expected *liberal* Democrats, with the greatest incentives to oppose literally anything he says, to defect from Pelosi during the shutdown. More than 2-years into his presidency and he & advisors still lack even a basic grasp of Congress.

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It's a bit late to start this process. Ideally, this is done over the course of months (see: Pelosi, Nov/Dec. 2018). At this point, unless a lot of dominos fall perfectly, it's hard to envision McCarthy appeasing so many disparate holdouts in such a short period of time.

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1 year

My article on Nancy Pelosi’s speakership was recently published in The Forum. Fortunately, the article is ungated, so you can all read my high-intimidated attempt to summarize one of the most consequential Speakers in American history here:

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1 year

It's hard to glean what, exactly, is happening behind closed doors but I think a few bits of information are particularly important. They're mostly not good for McCarthy:

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Why does that matter? It hinders McCarthy's leverage to win over a large bloc of holdouts. In 1923, the insurgent Republicans represented heavy agricultural districts and interests. They had specific rules demands because they had specific policy preferences.

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LOLOL (h/t @jamiedupree @_RegularOrder )

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Unfortunately, it appears McCarthy underestimated the threat and only now realizes conservatives' bluff was not a bluff. So... he is scrambling.

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Some members saying select committee or subcommittee gavels may be up for grabs in the negotiations between McCarthy and his detractors.

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He’s not just ignoring their opposition. He’s stamping it out. It runs counter to decades of procedural tactics and strategies, and hasn’t really been seen since Speakers have had a say over the Rules Committee’s operation.

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4 years

This amounts to roughly 4.4% of GA’s voting eligible population and roughly 7.8% of total votes cast in GA in 2018.

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That means, paying and providing benefits that encourage staff to stay in public service rather than bolt for a private sector paycheck, where they often become lobbyists/advocates returning to the Hill to shape inexperienced staffers' policy views.

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*Committee staff *are* Congress's policy experts. In general, they are older, more experienced, better paid, have better hours and more predictable schedules, and focus on much narrower portfolios.

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It also raises some questions. There’s more than one way to move these bills. Johnson chose the most politically treacherous path. Setting aside for a moment that it could have been a miscalculation, what does he gain from the turmoil?

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If you want staff better prepared to vet and analyze the overwhelming amount of policy information shoved in their faces on a day-to-day basis, you need more experienced staff.

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4 years

We're so primed to think of politics through the lens of partisan conflict that stories describe a bill passing near unanimously as "bitterly partisan," and stylize week+ long negotiations as "stalemate."

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That allowed Gillett and Longworth to break the impasse with a very specific negotiation (which was agreed to take place over the course of the next month). The parallels between 1923 and today stop at an insurgent faction forcing concessions from a majority of their conference.

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8 months

Don’t sleep on the not-that-impossible-to-imagine scenario where McHenry remains in the chair as Speaker Pro Tem much longer than anyone intends simply because zero consensus exists among Republicans.

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“On the way out [of the chamber], three different Republicans told me three different names of people that they thought might be the next speaker,” says Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin.

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The motion to vacate is being treated like a personnel tool majorities use to oust ineffective speakers. This is a massive misconception. The motion exists for instances when a majority ceases to be a majority. Triggering the MTV

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This is why placing the 118th Congress alongside the 97th (1981-1982) is so insane. Today's party unity "win rate" is on par with time when parties did not dictate House operation.

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That enables advocacy groups/interests/etc to more easily shape the staff' views and positions. In turn, this limits members' ability to accurately analyze policy and politics relative to constituent/district opinion.

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In other words, in 1982, we were closer to Mayhew's famous 1974 quote - "no theoretical treatment of the United States Congress that posits parties as analytic units will go very far" - than we were to articulating parties' influence on legislative behavior.

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3 years

Something to keep in mind as Senate power-sharing standoff continues: Time matters a great deal in the credibility of McConnell and Schumer's threats. McConnell has a temporary advantage that will erode the longer it continues. |1

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

6 years

Partisanship is *not always* a hell of a drug (for once). Belief in Russian election interference up across partisan lines.

Mark Murray

@mmurraypolitics

6 years

@aedwardslevy Increase in belief in interference was across Ds, Rs, and indies

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

7 years

In other words, this WH just sabotaged themselves and congressional Republicans again.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

1 year

Reps.-Elect Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and outgoing Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern (D-MA) are talking on the floor right now and I've never wanted a hot mic situation more in my entire life.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

8 months

Very important and not said enough 👇 The Speaker pro tem could stay in the chair. There's not forcing mechanism for a new election, nor are there any overt restrictions on the power the pro tem would wield. The support of the conference would dictate the durability of this.

Steven S. Smith

@ProfStevenSmith

8 months

At the risk of being repetitive, House Rule I.8.3. A long-term Speaker pro tempore is possible. Assuming Santos is not first on the list, Repubs could easily choose that option over another multi-ballot contest.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

8 months

Democrats lock-step vote to oust McCarthy was one of most surprising part of yesterday’s proceedings. There has been a norm against interfering with the opposing party’s internal decisions (leaders, assignments, etc). That, like other norms, is fading.

Jake Sherman

@JakeSherman

8 months

NEWS — HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP has kicked @RepStenyHoyer out of his Capitol hideaway. Republicans — McCarthy — are taking revenge for Democrats voting with @mattgaetz to boot @SpeakerMcCarthy from the speakership. Expect more of this, GOP sources tell us. Me and…

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

7 years

Great piece on gerrymandering by @smotus . Must read.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

7 years

Democrats won’t support budget deal w/o ACA payments. And conservatives won’t vote for easing sequester or debt ceiling.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

4 months

Bipartisanship was still the norm. Voting metrics showing slight upticks in partisan voting in the House, which had modestly increased from the mid-1970s. But big increases wouldn't happen until the late-1980s and 1990s.

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Josh Huder

@joshHuder

5 years

If I’m a House committee chair, I’m drafting subpoenas for Dan Coats, his deputy, and any other IC officials who resigned around the time of the phone call.

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