Former Rep. Justin Amash was on the floor during the leadership fight??
Brian Lamb question: What does the speaker actually do?
And what do the Gang of Twenty actually want?
Rep. Amash: Kevin McCarthy “isn’t that bright” and “will do whatever it takes to maintain power”
Why the system is broken and how it got that way
Congress is becoming more European
Reminder: Amash created (and named) the Freedom Caucus
Are you really putting yourself forward to be speaker?
The whole system is broken. And all the other speaker options are reflections of this brokenness
The NYT and “ultraconservatives”
The Ukraine objection exception
A qualified defense of the execrable Skip Bayless
Idiots deciding who gets to speak
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#389 "We Need to Talk About Kevin (w/ former Rep. Justin Amash)
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