House Speaker Mike Johnson told a hotel conference roomful of Christian conservatives that he was the only thing stopping Democrats from investigating not just President Donald Trump, but all of his allies and family members — and many of them, too.
Johnson spoke on Friday to the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual summit, a gathering of religious conservatives, where Trump also spoke later in the day. Most polling shows Democrats have a good chance of winning back the House of Representatives, but Johnson warned of the consequences for such a Republican defeat.
He warned that while Trump will not be on the ballot again, his future might be, along with their own.
tbh the biggest thing was not making the Senate proportional, which it was originally. now <1/3rd of the country gets 2/3rds of national power
The Senate not being proportional was because the House of Representatives has the issue of small states not getting representation. Tyranny of the majority and all that. It’s supposed to be a balance, because legislation has to pass through both.
That’s the issue with making a large country out of a bunch of small countries.
But the House decides what benefits the majority, and the Senate decides if that benefits the country as a whole. Although I don’t believe the Senate should have the ability to not vote on a house bill.
should be a way for the House to force an issue past the Senate, at a minimum. better would be just dissolving the shit entirely and having 1 parliment. one of the many many failings of the US’s government structure