Rep. Anna Paulina Luna reveals the two rules every new member of Congress is handed the week they arrive, and Stephen A. Smith can hardly believe what he’s hearing.
LUNA: "Every Congress, every two years, the House will come together and kind of come up with the rules of the game."
"A lot of members of Congress don't learn that when you first get elected, they just kind of bring you up here and they tell you two things: Never vote against the party and never take down a rule."
SMITH: "They actually say that?! Hold on, hold on, Representative. They actually say to you? 'Never vote against the party.' They actually say that to you?!"
LUNA: "Yeah, but it's not just us. The Democrats do it too, which is why you see the inner-party fighting. I'd say that Congress is more like a parliament than anything."
"And then they'll tell you, 'Don't use the rules and techniques that you're given, because then you're not going back to normal order. We need to make sure that normal order is given.'"
"Well, that just means that they want you to shut up and color."
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