26 Nov
2022
26 Nov
'22
9:39 a.m.
The Legislature is broken. @justinamash Concentrated power has decimated the House, turning legislators into actors. Here’s how many votes the speaker has allowed on floor-offered (not prescreened) amendments/year: 2011: 414 2012: 153 2013: 61 2014: 96 2015: 94 2016: 29 2017: 0 2018: 0 2019: 0 2020: 0 2021: 0 2022: 0 @RepRibble I was there with @justinamash from 2011 to 2016 and watched this with great frustration. Finally determined I didn’t need to be there because the result of any vote was already predetermined. As a regular member of congress I had zero power to influence legislation.