Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

And that's a problem.

And it's on both sides.

So I'm trying to do a discharge petition now on term limits.

So back in January of my first term, so back in January of 2022, I'm sure you saw there was like this massive speaker's fight about confirming Kevin McCarthy as a speaker of the House.

And I was part of one of those 20 that said, we're not going to vote for you just yet.

We need to reform the institution and the way that we function because power had been consolidated within the speaker's position so much so that –

How it's supposed to work is you're supposed to be able to bring a bill forward.

That bill is supposed to come to the floor.

All of these policies were being consolidated in one person.

And if you didn't fall in line, you wouldn't get committee assignments.

You wouldn't be able to fundraise.

They would basically cut off all aspects of fundraising in Washington.

And the mainstream media for a while was like, you guys are disrupting the process.

You know, like you guys are fighting.

Well, what the hell do you want Congress to do?

You want us to just fall in line and not argue our principles?

Like that's the last time I checked, you're supposed to fight for that.

And so we were able to reform the institution.

But one of the things that we had negotiated with the former speaker was we wanted a vote on term limits and that never came up.

And so now because of our very slim majority, one of the most slim majorities in US history, we have the ability to do something called a discharge petition.