Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) calls for new house leadership

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16. Because...

...(1) supposedly some members have problems with portions of the bill that has been proposed thus far and having them vote for a flawed bill or vote against the "preventing Congress from insider trading" bill (which is how it will be spun by their opponents) are both bad options; (2) the vote will be meaningless since the Senate is crafting its own bill and it will not vote on the House bill before the November elections and, if history is any indication, they won't even vote on the House bill and instead will send their finalized version of the bill to the House and force them to vote on it since it's easier to pass a bill in the House than it is the Senate; and (3) Democrats fighting Democrats at a time when their attention should be focused squarely on their Republican opponents is of course not helpful to Democrats.

I mean, I could probably go on and on. There is no shortage of downsides. The better question would be, what are the upsides? At best, you have a bill passed in the House that is going nowhere in the Senate until after the November elections anyway. It just would be for show with no actual substance behind it.