This is why we need a constitutional amendment to allow only one 6 year term for the House and Senate. No re-election. You serve and then you hand the keys over. So many things could be corrected by this.
Interesting read. Thanks for posting.
“The Class of 1974 also shifted the House and the congressional Democratic Party from hawkish to dovish. One of its first acts in March 1975 was to block funding for South Vietnam when it was under attack by the North. Saigon fell in April. “
And thus have the blood of millions on their hands.
All of the democrat rats leaving a sinking ship.I just hope their retirements go the same way.
Speaks volumes about the permanent political class.
Thank God..... it certainly took long enough!
well...at least they left the country better than they found it (extreme sarcasm)
Good riddance to all of them!
The only other members of the Class of 1974 are Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, one of only 17 Republican freshmen elected that year, and Congressman Rick Nolan, who retired from the House in 1980 but was elected again in 2012 after 32 years in the private sector.
Grassley was elected to the House in '74 of course, Senate in 1980. Damn that Nolan!!! I want em all gone!!!
Strange the way things work out. Unless we beat him (which is possible but not likely), Nolan, a guy who retired before I was born and whom most people forgot about, will be the last watergate baby left thanks to a 2012 comeback in a mostly different district.
If Grassley, a Republican, outlasts him that would be the ultimate irony.