OPINION
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Jason Chaffetz: Let's stop electing the speaker of the House in secret
OPINION - By Jason Chaffetz | Fox News
(Reuters)
As second in line to the presidency, the speaker of the House is one of the most influential people in all of government. Yet the process for filling this position is disturbingly opaque. Most Americans know more about how we choose the next Miss America than about the selection of the House speaker – or the House minority leader for that matter.
When we elect a president and a vice president, we engage in a prolonged cycle of discussion, news coverage, public debates, and campaigning. A new Supreme Court justice, as we just witnessed, is subjected to months of vetting, a public hearing, a committee vote, and an open and transparent floor vote.
But the speaker and minority leader? Not so much. These positions get a closed nomination process which too often involves just one candidate. The vote happens behind closed doors; not even the House members know the vote tally. This is followed by a public floor vote that almost always falls along party lines.
The election of one of the most powerful positions in all of government should not be done in darkness. But only the House can make this change. And only through public pressure and bipartisan demand is that likely to happen.
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