The utter arrogance of it is mind-boggling. Georgia's Representative Tom Price, who has risen in Congress to be chair of the House Republican Study Committee and an increasingly vocal member of the GOP leadership, has introduced a bill that would mandate that the House hold no sessions between the November election and the end of this Congress in January.
Because, Price says, he is afraid of what legislation the Democrats will force through in a lame duck session. What arrogance!!! What hubris!!! He's saying: We know we're going to win, and we want to start being in control now, even before the election. You should just roll over and play dead in the meantime. I hope the Honorable Price will be greatly disappointed when the Republicans do not in fact retake control of the House in the elections.
These Republicans are quick to yell "Constitution !!!" whenever they think Democrats are overstepping boundaries. Well, isn't this a bit of usurpation of the Constitutionally mandated terms of House members? Price in effect is wanting to shorten the terms by two months, that's 1/12 of the entire term.
Get over yourself, Dr. Tom.
Ralph
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