I think if we win back the House majority this fall, which I'm hopeful that we do, you know, I want to see things a little bit different than business as usual. We will have a new speaker in Hakeem Jeffries. I'd like to see committee assignments not just be sort of like a good old boys club of who's been there the longest. but thinking about who might be best suited to lead some of those committees, which is not typically how committee assignments are done in the Democratic Party. (03:46–03:52)
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