Would the gentleman from California be willing to use the "power over the purse" as weapon in defense of the Constitution?

January 5, 2023 --

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The House of Representatives cannot only refuse, but they alone can propose, the supplies requisite for the support of government. They, in a word, hold the purse that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant and humble representation of the people gradually enlarging the sphere of its activity and importance, and finally reducing, as far as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government. This power over the purse may, in fact, be regarded as the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the immediate representatives of the people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance, and for carrying into effect every just and salutary measure.

Now stop guffawing.

That is why, if the conference elects the gentleman from California speaker, it is imperative that the conference names a MAGA ideologist -- an American Mikhail Suslov, if you will.

-- Zukerman