Apparently there was some “New Republic” stuff that was cut from the new movie. There was a weird closeup of some chick before she dies, but she was never seen before (horrible editing choice leaving it in then). In a deleted scene she was Leia’s liaison with the Senate.
As I understand basically the Senate was refusing to directly act against the Em...er “First Order”. So yeah, useless bunch of bickering jackholes just the old Senate in the prequels.
Probably the most realistic thing in the movies is how this Galactic Superstate with it’s a huge legislature is unable to function, even to protect itself.
doesn’t new hampshire have lots of house seats in its legislature? anyway, we expand the number of congressional seats, the justice dept under hillary will demand that those new seats be minority influenced seats. (i.e. dem likely seats).