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The lesser of two Houses

June 17, 2025
Let’s dispel once and for all the enduring myth that the Senate is the “upper chamber” of Congress. On the contrary, an overwhelming majority of senators have shown themselves to belong to the inferior half of the bicameral legislature: more subservient, less statesmanlike, and, by their own actions, constitutionally illiterate — indeed the lesser of the two Houses. Credit Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero for leading this band of senator-judges, now reduced to acting as

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