"Shut it down, shut it down, shut it down," Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told Axios, "and maybe, maybe, they'll take us serious and understand that we are unwilling to negotiate some minimal crap."
Quiz time, and the category is American gerontocracy. Here goes: how many sitting Democratic members of Congress have died in office since November 2022? The answer is a mind-boggling eight. While Republicans aren't dropping dead at the same rate, they're arguably clinging to power for longer than is dignified. Last year, a Texas journalist discovered Kay Granger, a high-ranking octogenarian Republican congresswoman, had stopped coming to work because she was in a senior living facility, suffering from dementia issues.