{"id":178474,"date":"2018-11-17T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/good-politics\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T01:10:00","slug":"good-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/17\/good-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Progressives are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/11\/16\/pelosi-speaker-progressives-congress-998595\">holding Pelosi&#8217;s feet to the fire to extract concessions in what is shaping up to be a contentious race for speaker<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">It wasn\u2019t a coincidence that moments after Nancy Pelosi promised progressive House leaders more power in the next Congress, a host of liberal groups announced they were supporting her for speaker. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who is expected to co-chair the House Progressive Caucus next year, left a Thursday night meeting with Pelosi in the Capitol and proclaimed that her members would have more seats on powerful committees and more influence over legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi&#8217;s overtures also speak to progressives\u2019 growing influence in the Democratic Caucus. The Progressive Caucus will increase its membership by at least 20 members next year, and comprise about two-fifths of the caucus. Its leaders intend to use those numbers to boost their power and agenda \u2014 starting first with committee assignments and leadership positions, then expanding into legislation.  <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s meeting with Pelosi included Jayapal and current Progressive Caucus Co-Chair Mark Pocan (D-Wis.). One request to which Pelosi agreed was to give the Progressive Caucus proportional representation on what lawmakers call the \u201cA committees\u201d: the Appropriations, Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services and Intelligence committees.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The group leaders also registered their concerns about \u201cpay-go\u201d rules with Pelosi. Under those rules, certain bills cannot be considered if they aren&#8217;t paid for. Progressives have long run on policy positions that would be expensive, from &#8220;Medicare for all&#8221; to free college tuition. Pelosi didn\u2019t make any commitments, but she promised to bring those rules up for debate.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good move.&nbsp; As Teddy Roosevelt once said, &#8220;If you&#8217;ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressives are holding Pelosi&#8217;s feet to the fire to extract concessions in what is shaping up to be a contentious race for speaker: It wasn\u2019t a coincidence that moments after Nancy Pelosi promised progressive House leaders more power in the next Congress, a host of liberal groups announced they were supporting her for speaker. Rep. &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":[447,374],"class_list":["post-178474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474"}],"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=178474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}