Back when Nancy Pelosi was speaker, the legacy media bemoaned the fact (as of last October) that the House had passed 420 bills that the Senate had not taken up. Journalists would never have dared label these bills “symbolic.” Rather, the problem was a “gap in productivity” between an energetic and progressive people’s chamber and the Jurassic Senate, where archaic rules empowered a rump to block critical agenda items.
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Repealing Obamacare Is Not “Symbolic,” But A Constitutional Duty
John R. Graham
Back when Nancy Pelosi was speaker, the legacy media bemoaned the fact (as of last October) that the House had passed 420 bills that the Senate had not taken up. Journalists would never have dared label these bills “symbolic.” Rather, the problem was a “gap in productivity” between an energetic and progressive people’s chamber and the Jurassic Senate, where archaic rules empowered a rump to block critical agenda items.
Read the entire entry at National Review Online.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.