Tagged: open rule
McCarthy Doesn’t Have a Viable Opponent, but He Also Does Not Have the Votes to be Speaker
By all accounts, the current situation in the U.S. House is sort of a weightless, gravityless struggle of both sides floating and spinning to try and achieve their goals; on the one side, the...
Why the Hastert Rule Hurts the House GOP — and why we need more Open Rules on the House Floor
Open rules on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, that is, the ability for every member of the U.S. House to offer any amendment on the House floor to a bill, are...