They moved in like the MOB and took over by lying about what they were out to reform.


GOP's Power Play
Sat Jul 26, 1:00 AM ET

By Jim VandeHei and Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post Staff Writers

Nearly 10 years after winning control of the House by vowing a fairer and more open Congress, Republicans have tossed aside many of the institutional reforms they promised, increasingly employing hard-nosed tactics they decried a decade ago, according to numerous lawmakers and scholars.

Among the reforms championed by an earlier generation of House Republicans, and subsequently dropped or weakened: term limits for rank-and-file members as well as committee chairmen; stricter ethics laws; and greater power for individual members and the minority party...







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