“This foolishness they have going on here is insanity,” says freshman Rep. Janelle Bynum.
It’s an eventful time to be starting out in Congress, but in this case Bynum, D-Ore., doesn’t mean the early days of the Trump administration; she’s talking about House committee seating charts.
In the Oregon state legislature, “we sat D-R-D-R, because you could get to know people that way,” Bynum said. On the House Financial Services Committee, though, like nearly all congressional panels, Democrats all sit on one side, and Republicans the other. “It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen,” she said.
