Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
On Friday afternoon, after Republicans failed again to elect a new House speaker, Democratic members gathered on the Capitol steps and heard House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denounce the GOP’s nominee, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, as an “extremist” and the chairman of his party’s “chaos caucus.” But that’s not all the New York Democrat said. “We want to find a bipartisan path to reopening the House of Representatives,” he added. It was a familiar message.
“The current rules of the House have facilitated a handful of Republicans being able to determine what gets voted on in the House of Representatives and that undermines the interests of the American people. We can change the rules to facilitate bipartisanship and that should be the starting point of our conversation.
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