in congress have been unable to represent their constituents, because two or three in "leadership” huddle with lobbyists, produce 4,000 page bills that they dump on members’ desks just in time for a vote — just as they did with the "omnibus” budget.

This literally creates a situation of TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, because representatives have no input into lawmaking!

"Regular order” requires the budget to be made available in july, to be voted on in September, or something like that. That allows for floor debate and amendment.

For months, the house freedom caucus has been trying to work out agreement with McCarthy on six specific badly needed procedural points, including a return to "regular order”. McCarthy refused to even meet with them — he believed he could run over them and get the Speakership, anyway, without agreeing to anything, because he has the backing of big money lobbyists and he thought that enough of the others in the House were on the payroll of the lobbyists to get him through.

He failed!

Nothing may come of it, but the 20 holdouts have at least given us some hope that we may possibly be able to get some representation in our government, again, after about 30 years with none!

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