Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/26/house-republicans-democrats-recess-midterms

As they departed the Capitol for the five-week recess, House Republicans nonetheless believed they had a credible case to make for why the opposition should stay in the minority for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.

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It should be, yes. The good ones are already doing this, but there absolutely should be some requirement to make the lazy ones actually do their job.

And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest. They should be terrified of being voted out because their constituents keep their feet to the fire.

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And, ideally, we’d have an active and informed constituency that keeps their representatives honest.

Ideally, yeah. But the mandatory town hall thing seems a bit easier to actually achieve. Have you met the constituency?

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Lol yeah that’s the issue. You cannot expect people to put rules on themselves like that if nobody is going to enforce it. It truly does fall to the constituency to be the enforcement by voting them out when they abdicate their responsibilities.

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