Overview
- Rep. Nancy Mace wrote that Nancy Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican this century in a New York Times op-ed titled “What’s the Point of Congress?”.
- Mace argued House Republican leaders marginalize rank-and-file members, particularly women, and described current management of the chamber as restrictive and ineffective.
- She said leadership refuses to schedule up-or-down votes on broadly supported items such as a ban on congressional stock trading, term limits and national voter ID.
- Mace pointed to discharge petitions as a workaround, noting one was used to force a vote to order the Justice Department to release the Epstein files and that another seeks a vote on stock-trading restrictions.
- Warning her party could lose its majority without action on border security, affordability, health care and public safety, Mace’s critique drew a response from Speaker Mike Johnson, who called marginalization claims spurious.