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Wednesday 26th of August 2026

2022 midterm elections The good news is, we are going to get the House back. We are going to get the House back. That is a done deal. … We have everything working in our favor right now. We have redistricting coming up and the Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country.  That alone should get us the majority back.  Ronny Jackson, once Physician to the President, now a House member from Texas, admitting Republicans will rely on gerrymandering to win in 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2024 Presidential election I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact. Donald Trump, alluding to an agremeent he has with Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, to ensure that the House of Representatives guarantees Republicans win any contested election for the House or the presidency © 2024 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Democratic House candidates netted 1.3 million more votes than Republicans in 2012, but secured 33 fewer seats. Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, June 29, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
The Constitution of the United States Few Americans are aware that under the Constitution, a candidate could lose the popular vote and the Electoral College and still become president. In fact, it’s already happened [in 1824]. … In other words, assuming Mr. Trump is still a free man, he could be picked by  the House to be the 47th president, even if  Mr. Biden wins millions more popular votes and the most electoral votes. James Wegman, New York Times, October 14, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Let's understand why we are really here, we are really here because the majority of the House of Representatives does not want to face Donald Trump as a political rival in the future … Nobody says it that plainly but unfortunately I have a way of speaking that way. Bill Castor, Jr., Trump's legal counsel, in his Day 1 remarks during Trump's second impeachment trial © 2021 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering In many states, the partisan composition  of the US Congress is effectively determined by state legislative elections that occur once a decade, before redistricting. This arrangement means that state governments have expanded their reach  into national affairs in ways that undermine  the design of the House of Representatives to be responsive to public opinion and unsettle the balance of power between state and federal government that has been settled for many decades. Alex Keena, Michael Latner, Anthony J. McGann, Charles Anthony Smith, Gerrymandering the States   © 2021 Kwiple.com
Gerrymandering Jonathan Mattingly swings his legs up onto his desk, presses a key on his laptop and changes the results of the 2012 elections in North Carolina. On the screen, flickering lines and dots outline a map of the state's 13 congres- sional districts, each of which chooses one person to the US House of Representatives. By tweaking the borders of those election districts, but not changing a single vote, Mattingly's maps show candidates from the Democratic Party winning six, seven or even eight seats in the race. In reality, they won only four – despite earning a majority of votes overall. “The mathematicians who want to save democracy,” Nature, Vol. 546, 8 June 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare House Republicans make healthcare great again by passing Trumpcare bill offering two options: Go broke   OR   Go without May 4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare Only 24 million will lose insurance? Only 52 million will be uninsured? That's not enough, God dammit!  Republican Party House Freedom to Die Caucus Justin Amash (MI) Jeff Duncan (SC) Alex Mooney (WV) Brian Babin TX) Trent Franks (AZ) Gary Palmer (AL) Rod Blum (IA) Tom Garrett, Jr. (AZ) Steve Pearce (NM) Dave Brat (VA) Paul Gosar (AZ) Scott Perry (PA) Jim Bridenstine (OK) Morgan Griffith (VA) Ted Poe (TX) Mo Brooks (AL) Andy Harris (MD) Bill Posey (FL) Ken Buck (CO) Jody Hice (GA) Mark Sanford (SC) Warren Davidson (OH) Jim Jordan (OH) Dave Schweikert (AZ) Ron DeSantis (FL) Raul Labrador (ID) Randy Weber (TX) Scott DesJarlais (TN) Thomas Massie (KY) Ted Yoho (FL) Mark Meadows (NC) © 2017 Kwiple.com
Healthcare You have every provision of this bill tattooed on your forehead. You will glow in the dark on this one.  Nancy Pelosi, to House Republicans, on passing their Trumpcare bill, May 4, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
House of Representatives The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination – a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capital where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days skinning democracy like a fish. The official function of the committee is to decide which bills and amendments will be voted on by Congress and also to schedule the parameters of debate. If Rules votes against your amendment, your amendment dies. If you control the Rules Committee, you control Congress. Matt Taibbi, “Four Amendments and a Funeral” © 2017 Kwiple.com
House of Representatives In the House, if you have a majority of the votes, you can do anything you want. If you don’t, you can’t do much of anything. Brendan Buck, New York Times, January 2, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
House of Representatives  Once you've got the gig,  it's yours for life. The reelection rate for incumbents in 2020 was 95%. That's better job security than a pedophile priest. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Amend the Constitution to require members of Congress to be elected by a majority of voters in their constituencies © 2015 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say I accuse Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes (CA), Chairman Paul Ryan (WI), Ex officio Mike Conaway (TX) Tom Rooney (FL) Rick Crawford (AR) I. Ros-Lehtinen (FL) Trey Gowdy (SC) Elise Stefanik (NY) Will Hurd (TX) Chris Stewart (UT) Peter King (NY) Mike Turner (OH) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) Brad Wenstrup (OH) of abrogation of duty in investigating the degree of Russian interference in the 2016 elections ——— Specific charges ——— • Failing to call key witnesses • Failing to verify witness statements • Failing to supboena uncooperative witnesses & witnesses who lied • Leaking secrets for partisan gain • Denying Putin favored Trump • Failing to inform Democratic committee members of meetings • Prohibiting Democratic input to written committee reports • Failing to await special counsel Robert Mueller's findings • Putting Republican Party interests above the nation's © 2018 Kwiple.com
Kwiplers say Make Election Day for federal government office holders a paid federal holiday © 2016 Kwiple.com
Political inequality In the past three House elections, Republicans' share of House seats has been 4-5 percentage points greater than their share of the two-party vote. In 2012 they won a comfortable 54% of the chamber despite receiving fewer votes than their Democratic opponents; in 2014 they converted a 51% two-party-vote share into 55% of the seats. Economist, July 12, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Separation of powers Given America's separation of powers, the Tea Party needs to be only a majority of the majority of one half of one branch of government to have a pretty good shot at ensuring nothing significant can move in Washington, D.C. The only threshold that matters is to be a majority of the minority party in the Senate (where forty votes can block almost all legislation), and to remain the largest and most powerful faction in the House. Even if Republicans lost control of the House, the Tea Party could still get by on the minority veto in the Senate. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest You can’t make this crap up. George Santos, commenting on the four days it took Republicans to elect Kevin McCarthy Speaker of the House --> © 2023 Kwiple.com
Taxes The Senate's three richest members – Democrats Mark Warner (VA), Richard Blumenthal (CT) and Diane Feinstein (CA) – voted against the 2017 tax bill. The Senate's three richest Republicans – Jim Risch (ID), Bob Corker (TN) and John Hoeven (ND) – voted for it. The House's three richest Democrats – John Delaney (MD), Jared Polis (CO) and Scott Peters (CA) – voted against the 2017 tax bill. 2 of the 3 richest House Republicans – Greg Gianforte (MT, richest)  and Michael McCaul (TX, 3rd richest) – voted for it. © 2017 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If Trump becomes Speaker of the House, the House chamber will be like a Trump rally everyday!! It would be the House of MAGA!!! Marjorie Taylor Greene, 1:25 PM — Oct 5, 2023   © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Resolved. That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that former President Donald J. Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. Resolution that Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other far-righters are trying to get passed by the House © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say We only have one choice for Speaker: President Donald J. Trump His policies stopped the globalists and communists more than anyone else. He is the leader of the Republican Party and the only person we can trust to Save America. Marjorie Taylor Greene, 5:18 PM — Oct 4, 2023  © 2023 Kwiple.com