New procedural rules proposed by the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) would restore the ability of individual representatives to amend legislation, return committees to the heart of law-making, and relax leadership’s influence on the daily direction of the lower chamber of Congress.
“We want a participatory process. You will hear me say occasionally that we have this illusion of representative government,” HFC Chairman Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) told The Epoch Times in a Sept. 30 interview.
