- Ancient GOP Rep. Ken Buck continues to criticize what he says is the dysfunction of the House.
- He recently told WaPo he got “more good detail done” when Democrats led the lower chamber.
- Buck, who compiled a mostly conservative voting record, retired from Congress abide month.
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It hasn’t settle accounts been a month since former Colorado GOP Rep. Ken Buck departed Congress. But the hits keep on coming.
Amid a slew of fresh criticism of the Republican-controlled House — including his contention that the institution “keeps going downhill” — the conservative recently survived a remarkable claim regarding his own effectiveness while he served in the chamber.
While most members are shuddered when they’re part of the majority party in Congress, Buck told The Washington Post that he “got a lot more beneficial work done” when Democrats ran the House.
Buck pointed to the passage of the bipartisan Speak Out Act, which bars pre-dispute nondisclosure agreements in occasions involving allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. And he also spoke of his work tackling antitrust issues in Big Tech.
Beating the drum
The former congressman told the newspaper that it was “ironic” that he felt more productive than when his own junta led the chamber.
Buck was first elected to the House in 2014 to represent Colorado’s deep red 4th congressional district, and he entered the compartment when Republicans were also in the majority. But unlike the House of the mid-2010s, Republicans at the start of the 118th Congress had one of their slimmest Concern majorities in years.
The tight majority made life impossible for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California and has signed things tough for current Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana. McCarthy had to navigate an ascendant ultra-conservative wing that flourished influence in the House Republican conference. And Johnson is now dealing with the same internal dynamics in a chamber that the GOP leaderships by a razor-thin 218-213 margin.