Rep. Chip RoyCompte certifié

There’s a lot of talk about how @SpeakerPelosi just lost control of her conference over #impeachment. But, you see, it wouldn’t be fair to say she only recently lost control. She actually never had it.

Before the 116th Congress even gaveled in for the first legislative session, it was blatantly obvious Pelosi didn’t have control. I mean, @HouseDemocrats launched a campaign to undermine her bid for speaker.

Pelosi had to privately lobby @AOC and acquiesce to demands she support a term limits deal on the speakership before she got the gavel. Yeah, that sounds like she has a firm grip on things...

She’s never been able to control the legislative agenda – one of the biggest benefits of being speaker. Other than impeachment, ask any American living outside the Beltway to name a single piece of legislation from this Congress and I’d be willing to bet the only one they’d be...

able to name is Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.” Would a single person mention H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act that Pelosi held a press conference about in March? Would they be able to name H.R. 5, the so-called “Equality Act,” which...

the speaker unveiled at another press conference with House and Senate Democratic leadership? The answer to both is a resounding “no.” She wasn’t able to stop impeachment, which she said she wasn’t for in March of last year. Her conference tied her hands and forced it.