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and vice versa, they’re prone to reminisce instead about legislation they sponsored, foreign travel with lawmakers from the opposition party, and other efforts to work across the aisle.
The fight is “an example of how partisan passions unleashed might overcome better judgment,” Bauer writes. For a time, both McIntyre and McCloskey drew congressional pay, but neither was officially seated. Finally, after months of ballot recounts, the House voted in May 1985, to declare McCloskey the winner, approving the recommendation of a Democratic-controlled House task force sent to Indiana to examine vote-counting procedures.
Throughout Michel’s time in leadership, he remained committed to legislative compromise in the practical view that, so long as his caucus had fewer votes than the Democrats, appealing to the spirit of bipartisanship was the best way for his side to lay claim to a few crumbs off the negotiating table.
Meanwhile, House Democrats by the 1980s, convinced that Republicans would be forever in the minority, regularly abused their majority power. Democrats denied minority legislators adequate staff, excluded them from committee deliberations, gerrymandered their districts, and even, Republicans were convinced, stole elections.
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