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[DesertDrifter]

A reasoned essay, but I think confiscation of all guns in the USA would probably be more likely to happen, in other words, impossible. The area I live in, the State of Jefferson, wants so badly to become a red state dependent upon the blue states for money that it could maybe work if the republican majority was big enough in the senate.

Two more republican senators would tickle their fancy just fine.

Trouble is, california will never allow it, as why dilute their power by half? Having Feinstein on an equal footing with Buck Killer Bozoski will never fly. Dropping the senate completely would be like asking red welfare states to give up their welfare, it will never happen, but it will not stop them from bitching about the very welfare they get from the blue states in the meantime. Haven't had my coffee yet...

[Dale C]

Ah but that's the beauty of the system and why it was made that way so that even a majority could not impose its will upon the rest of the states. Lol I'm reading The Federalist and finding out why the constitution is the way it is.

[BOREALIS]

PowerPost Analysis -- John Dingell's final plea for aggressive congressional oversight of Trump

By James Hohmann
February 8 at 9:25 AM

With Joanie Greve

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John D. Dingell Jr., the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, died at his home in Detroit on Feb. 7. (Drea Cornejo/The Washington Post)


THE BIG IDEA: The dean has died. John Dingell Jr., the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, passed away yesterday at 92 of complications from prostate cancer.

His wife, Debbie, who was by his side at their home in Dearborn, Mich., holds the seat that he gave up in 2014 after 29 terms.

History will probably best remember the Michigan Democrat for championing the expansion of health care, from Medicare to Obamacare.

He always said his proudest vote was for the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and Dingell introduced the bill that created the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.

For legions of former administration officials who found themselves in Dingell’s crosshairs during his 59 years in the House, however, he will always be most closely associated with vigorous oversight of the executive branch.

Dingell also went aggressively after government contractors who wasted taxpayer money. Stanford President Donald Kennedy was forced to resign in 1991 after Dingell’s investigators uncovered that the university had used federal grants meant for scientific research to help pay for a 72-foot yacht on the San Francisco Bay, along with fancy floral arrangements.

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