{"id":175664,"date":"2020-12-29T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/29\/inside-baseball-but-meaningful\/"},"modified":"2020-12-29T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:56:00","slug":"inside-baseball-but-meaningful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/29\/inside-baseball-but-meaningful\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Baseball, but Meaningful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives has <a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/progressive-congressional-caucus-democratic-house\">has adopted new rules and a new structure to make it more like a parliamentary caucus<\/a>, with a single chairman, and the ability to whip its members.<\/p>\n<p>The changes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Only one chair, down from two co-chairs, which means that someone, currently Prami\u00adla Jaya\u00adpal (D-WA) will be running the caucus.<\/li>\n<li>The caucus will requirement members to vote with it \u2154 when the caucus approves of a vote by a \u2154 majority.&nbsp; (Weak tea, but better than no tea)<\/li>\n<li>Members must attend caucus meetings.&nbsp; (This is more significant than it sounds)<\/li>\n<li>Members must respond in a timely manner to any communications from the caucus whip, currently Ilhan Omar (D-MN)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, Jaypal has made it clear that if people find this too restricting, she is fine with them leaving the caucus.&nbsp; (i.e. don&#8217;t let the door hit your ass on the way out)<\/p>\n<p>Given the narrow Democratic margin in the next Congress, 10 seats if the members leaving to join the Biden administration are replaced by Democrats, a cohesive Progressive caucus, even if it drops to 50 members or so, can exert real power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives has has adopted new rules and a new structure to make it more like a parliamentary caucus, with a single chairman, and the ability to whip its members. The changes: Only one chair, down from two co-chairs, which means that someone, currently Prami\u00adla Jaya\u00adpal (D-WA) will be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[469,447,374],"class_list":["post-175664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bureaucracy","tag-congress","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}