As the House Rules Committee takes up the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this morning, which the hardline conservative wing of Republican House members have rejected up to this point, members will be hearing echoes of Massachusetts Republican Jim McGovern’s stinging rebuke. “This is the most ineffective, incompetent majority, I think, in American history. Full stop. It has been nearly an entire year, an entire year almost, since anything that we have done in the Rules Committee has gone to the president’s desk,” said McGovern, the ranking member of the Rules Committee.
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