Congress melts down: Members unleash personal attacks after weeks of shutdown drama
Let’s face it: Politics is personal. And you cannot separate the two on Capitol Hill.Lawmakers may not have missed legislating during the government shutdown. But they sure missed attacking one...
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Let’s face it: Politics is personal. And you cannot separate the two on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers may not have missed legislating during the government shutdown. But they sure missed attacking one another. Yes, both chambers of Congress voted to reopen the government. That’s legislating. There were certainly a few bills of consequence on the House and Senate floors in September before the shutdown. There was a little bit in the Senate, which remained in session during the shutdown. There was the adoption of the measure to compel the release of the Epstein files. EPSTEIN DOCUMENTS RAISE NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT TRUMP CONDUCT AS HE DENOUNCES DEMOCRATS But prior to that, one must hustle all the way back to the Senate’s approval of the "big beautiful bill" in June and the House in early July — plus the plan to defund foreign programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — to find Congress really engaging in legislation of consequence in 2025. So what has the House of Representatives resorted to since it’s been back in session? Members taking on members. Even fellow lawmakers of their own party. It’s gotten personal. And you don’t even have to be a voting member of the House to face the wrath of your colleagues. There was an effort by Republicans to censure the non-voting member from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Congress, Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., for exchanging messages with Epstein in preparation for President Donald Trump ’s first impeachment in 2019. Trump loyalists in the House would find revenge on Paskett sweeter than Caribbean sugar cane. Plaskett served as one of the House’s impeachment "managers," prosecuting the House’s second impeachment case of Trump before the Senate in early 2021. The measure to rebuke Plaskett failed. And as a result, Democrats refrained from a similar censure effort for Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla. That said, Democrats and some Republicans want to discipline Mills for two alleged transgressions. Democrats prepped a resolution back in Septe…