House to Modernize But More Transparency Not on the Agenda
By Mark Tapscott
March 18, 2019 Updated: March 19, 2019
WASHINGTON—Among Nancy Pelosi’s first moves as Speaker of the House was to create the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, with six members from each political party and chaired by Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.).
She did so, Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed, because voters demanded “a Congress that would be ethical, transparent, unifying, and responsive to their needs and aspirations.â€
But making the House more transparent—and thus more accountable to voters—got lost somewhere along the way between the November 2018 election that restored Democrats to the majority for the first time since 2010 and the official House rules adopted Jan. 4, that created the select panel.
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