Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., during a Homeland Security Committee hearing on Wednesday accused the FBI of secret involvement in the January 6 attack. Higgins during the hearing with FBI Director Christopher Wray cited their exchange from a previous hearing. “I asked you, ‘Did you have confidential human sources dressed as Trump supporters positioned inside the Capitol on January 6, prior to the doors being open?’ You responded. I quote again, ‘I have to be very careful of what I say,’” Higgins recalled, arguing that “we can’t get a straight answer” despite a “tremendous amount of evidence.”

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    I often think House seats should be smaller, there used to be 33k people per district, now it’s over 700k.

    But fewer people per district would make for some idiosyncrasies and guys like this make me think we have enough weirdos in the House as is.

    • @kryptonianCodeMonkey
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      A sizable reason for the current state of eccentric weirdos in the House is the Gerrymandering happening all over the place. Makes it way easier to win based on notoriety and the letter next to your name alone.

          • @QHC
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            41 year ago

            It’s harder and less effective with more districts, however.

          • @RestrictedAccount
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            31 year ago

            Fair enough, but there would be vanishing small returns because math.

    • TechyDad
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      I think it would balance out because those idiots might be more numerous, but they would have less power. So maybe a few Representatives would be looney, but they wouldn’t be able to get much done against the even larger ranks of sane members.

        • FuglyDuck
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          11 year ago

          and then you discover… all the other loonies that get elected, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      I agree, but we’d have to restructure how the House does business.

      The current count of Representatives is 435. If we were to go back to old ratios at 30k, we’d have 11,300 Representatives.

      We’d have to break it up into smaller, constituent houses, or something.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        If we went back to 210k people per Rep it’s about 1555. 210k is the ratio last time apportionment was done in 1912 or something like that.

        The math isn’t the point though. Republicans won’t budge regardless because any increase damages their inherent advantage.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Conservatives should love this, as it’s part of the Original plan right?

      Uncap the house. More reps = less power per rep.

      I will ALWAYS err on the side of diluting power. Always, All ways.