USA 2024 Elections Thread

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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.