“This would mean that the 116th Congress — featuring a Democratic House majority that promised to be ‘a governing party, and to extend an arm of cooperation to the president’ — started with the longest federal-government shutdown in U.S. history, impeached the president, got few if any major pieces of legislation passed, featured the speaker of the House tearing up a copy of the State of the Union address on live television, and ended with another government shutdown.”
~ Jim Geraghty, National Review
“This would mean that the 116th Congress — featuring a Democratic House majority that promised to be ‘a governing party, and to extend an arm of cooperation to the president’ — started with the longest federal-government shutdown in U.S. history, impeached the president, got few if any major pieces of legislation passed, featured the speaker of the House tearing up a copy of the State of the Union address on live television, and ended with another government shutdown.”
~ Jim Geraghty, National Review
