Retired Dem House of Representatives sparks Party leadership

One of the 31 House Democrats, who has so far announced she will not run for re-election this year, downplayed her role as party leader in an interview published Friday.

In an interview published by Politico, Representative Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), head of the “Green Dog” party caucus, who announced in December that she would not seek for a third term, said party leaders tried to “beat the submissive moderates” in talks about President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.

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For example, party moderators have pushed back on efforts by party leaders to get them to go along with a $1.8 trillion social spending package linked to the infrastructure bill. 1 trillion dollars.

Although the two eventually passed the House separately, the old law met insurmountable Democratic opposition in the Senate when West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin said on Wednesday. December that he could not support it.

“I felt from the start it was a failed strategy,” Murphy, the first Vietnamese-American woman elected to Congress, said of the effort to connect the infrastructure bill and the social spending package. .

“I also feel like you can’t promise rainbows and unicorns when you know you don’t have the votes for it.”

She also said that with Democrats holding a tiny majority in Congress, party leaders don’t have much “tolerance” for members to vote in a way that would allow them to stick around. stay with their temperate realm.

“Unfortunately because I think for us as Democrats to have a majority, you have to be able to win seats like mine and the redder seats. That means you have to reduce your members a little bit of time to vote their region,” explains Murphy.

“This march towards party unity will be detrimental to our ability to lead the agenda for this country,” she added.