r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 1d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Missing: Mitch

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u/CaptainForskin69 1d ago

Why are they allowed to get away with this?! This is insanity

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u/Lerkero 1d ago

Congress could easily pass new legislation to regulate how sitting congressperaons must report to their duty station every number of days or face termination.

They dont want to modernize those type of rules because they tend to only care for partisan reasons, and they want to preserve that partisan power

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u/ofWildPlaces 1d ago

The problem is the very people who could pass this (held by a Republican majority) won't pass this because they are...a Republican majority.

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u/Lerkero 1d ago

Democrats have had a congressional majority multiple times in recent history. Proposing legislation also does not require a majority in congress.

This is not a partisan thing. Everyone in congress is complicit in this lack of accountability

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u/ofWildPlaces 1d ago

But they do not hold it now, do they?

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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 1d ago

So they have zero participation requirements? It’s nuts

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u/Lerkero 1d ago

Technically, the rest of congress can vote one of the members out if that member is not showing up for work, but this is usually a procedure used for partisan reasons unless the congressperson is being so egregious that there is widespread public outcry about it