Every day when I awaken brings a new challenge.

For an old man with not so many years left, the challenge is not personal survival or ease. The main mystery for me is why so few of my fellow Americans will acknowledge the state in which our society finds itself.

We want to pretend we are going through a period of “business as usual” while our governance is far from usual.

The House is invested by the Constitution with more power and influence than the executive branch, the judicial branch or the Senate. I believe this is the way things should be.

The House is closer to and arguably more in tune with citizens of this country than any of its three other co-holders of political power. This is by design of our founders.

Devastatingly, the House, though nearly equal in partisan numbers, is

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