Forward by Andrew Yang

Author:Andrew Yang [Yang, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2021-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

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YOU’VE JUST JOINED a body of 435 representatives as the new kid on the block.

“Freshman members of Congress are a bit like freshmen in high school: low on the totem pole and, for the most part, expected to be seen and not heard,” wrote John Delaney, who served three terms from Maryland, in his book, The Right Answer.

Ro Khanna, current member of Congress from California’s Seventeenth District, which covers Silicon Valley, described the dynamic this way in an Instagram Live with me in 2020:

Your power in Congress is very much based on relationships…Who is going to have the best chance of convincing people to vote for them? The people who have been in Congress the longest time…If you’ve been in Congress, twenty, thirty years, you probably know 150, 160 of these members of Congress. So what you have is actually institutional static, basically a governing institution that is governed by people who won twenty, thirty years ago catering to people who won ten to fifteen years ago, and they actually hold the power in the institutions…Congress is being governed by people who won elections in the ’80s and ’90s. The antidemocratic character of these institutions probably isn’t understood enough, that it’s so seniority based.

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