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A fairy tale about Congress

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Benjamin Wittes
Oct 24, 2023
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Good Evening.

Dall*E: "A highly realistic photograph of actual members of Congress having a food fight on the floor of the House of Representatives"

Once upon a contemporary time, an assortment of 188 men and 33 women who called themselves a political party notionally controlled a powerful legislative body.

But they couldn’t choose someone to sit in the Chair.

These many men and embarrassingly few women had a few things in common: They all, for example, opposed the Other party. They all d…

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