Dana Milbank: Republicans’ gagging hypocrisy www.washingtonpost.com Silencing the House of Representatives.
The Republican-led House will reach a dubious milestone this week: It will enter the record books as the most gagged in American history.
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday plans to approve two more “closed rules” for debate — a procedure to block lawmakers from offering amendments on the House floor — bringing the total in the current Congress to 62. This will break the record of 61 closed rules set during Nancy Pelosi’s 2007-2008 Congress — and John Boehner’s House still has seven months in which to run up the score.
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