The Case for Town Halls
7 min readDec 8, 2017
The GOP has controlled the United States House and Senate for most of 2017. During that time, they have tried to pass deeply unpopular pieces of legislation.
Their take on healthcare was “the most unpopular bill in three decades” (significantly more unpopular than the infamous 2009 TARP bank bailouts). Their tax reform bill is similarly unpopular as it is currently being hurried through the final stages of a secretive legislative process requiring handwritten edits before passage through the Senate:
