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AGRI-PULSE COMMENTS ON CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION, WATCH WEBINAR HERE
Nov. 10, 2022
Agri-Pulse reports:
House Republicans may yet win control of the House when the final votes are counted. But the GOP leadership will have at best a very small majority that could make it difficult for them to pass legislative priorities.
A thin majority empowers individual members to derail bills, something House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dealt with as she tried to move President Joe Biden's legislative agenda. House progressives, for example, delayed passage of the infrastructure bill.
Take note: The conservative House Freedom Caucus holds a new member orientation today and tomorrow, and the agenda includes discussion of how to use issues like the farm bill as "leverage points."
Still, former House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., says the narrow election results could strengthen the GOP leadership's hand in dealing with rank-and-file members. The leadership can argue that voters don't "want us to go off and make radical changes that are going to make everything partisan," Peterson said in a webinar hosted by the North American Agricultural Journalists.
Watch the Agri-Pulse post-election webinar with Mike Torrey and former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp here..
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