💬 the tellers' own words: “Congress gave away, has given away its war powers” “Congress needs to actually come, like, grow back into its own power” “Democrats should prioritize prioritize investigating what's been happening inside the administration” “Elect people to Congress who actually want to be legislators” “if Democrats were smart they would stick to investigations and they would stick to getting people holding people responsible” “if Democrats were to say we're not going to look into that, there would be real backlash” “It will be a different world for an #administration used to a (mostly) rubber-stamp #Congress.” “It’s gonna be so funny how much more productive Congress will be in the next two years than the preceding two” “Pakman: 'it is your responsibility, your responsibility to do the oversight that has been constitutionally delegated to you... when we get subpoena power back in control of committees, we will examine every apparent grift, con and scam of Donald Trump'” “that's the one that's going to be doing a lot of subpoena work on getting documents out of the administration” “the best use of their time is to use that authority to, yeah, engage in really aggressive accountability” “the energy and the resources need to be put into accountability”