Kevin McCarthy's weeklong fight to become speaker of the House was called an embarrassment and a fiasco by many, but one of Washington's most trusted voices on how to reform and improve Congress saw something much more positive.
“I think the House floor is not a place to negotiate. It never has been,” Levin said.
“It would leave members with the sense that what we're doing here in our committee work is actually going to matter. There's actually going to be a vote,” Levin said. “Ninety percent of what happens in the members' committee time just doesn't go anywhere. They work on a bill, the speaker says, ‘Yeah, nice job,’ and then they never hear about it again.”
“It's just they've internalized the sense that making trouble is undemocratic. And that's just nonsense.”
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