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1. Majority Whip is the No. 3 figure in the House of Representatives. His power is not as great as Party Whip in the UK. The drama clearly exaggerates the ability of Francis. Changing to Majority Leader is almost the same. Historically, Gerald Ford was nominated as Vice President from the position of Minority Leader (a party with President Nixon, but a minority in the House of Representatives, so he was the number one Republican in the House of Representatives), and then succeeded as President. .

2. The role of the Senate is almost ignored. In fact, this is the focus of Congress in the United States. The education reform bill mentioned in the play is very similar to the No Child Left Behind Act during Bush's first term. It was also proposed as soon as he took office and was quickly passed by the two houses. Since then, there has been no more significant education reform. These major bills are basically the Senate dominates, and the influence of the House of Representatives is relatively small.

3. The majority leader of the House of Representatives can be mixed in this role. It has its own power base. How can it be so easy to be forced to abdicate by the speaker, and conversely, a figure like Underwood played this role in this event, the speaker It is also to beware anyway, how can it be good like a okay person.

4. The speaker himself will not resign or be impeached, and he will not change in the middle, so there is no such thing as today if you get 5 votes in exchange for you, tomorrow he gets 10 votes in exchange for him. Underwood planned the leadership challenge after the president's inauguration (January 22), that is to say, Congress has already taken office (around January 3) and elected the speaker. It is impossible to change people in the middle. In addition, the Republican Party also has enough reasons not to play underwood. It is not good for people to choose their own person as the speaker, since the two sides are divided. Especially in the two-round voting system, due to the split of the Democratic Party, the Republican candidates will definitely enter the next round. If there are obvious rifts within the Democratic Party in the second-round runoff, the possibility of a defection in favor of the Republican Party is not small.

5. All hearings of the BRAC commission must be C-SPAN. Only when the brain gets flooded will Russo not say a word on hearing, and prepare a speech that is full of loopholes and unconvincing will die?

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  • Francis Underwood: The road to power is paved with hypocrisy. And casualties.

  • Francis Underwood: I've always loathed the necessity of sleep. Like death, it puts even the most powerful men on their backs.