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Dealing with an emergency and all they have is old men who don’t have what it takes to take on the rabid GOP. Never understood why the US system is dominated by such old people.
Seats on committees and chairmanships are determined by seniority.
And to get seniority you need to stay in office and to stay in office you need money and to get stable money you need corporate money and there's always something they want in return.