by:Rick Albin
GRAND RAIPDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A group of U.S. House members in Washington have dropped partisan bickering to talk about civility and bipartisanship instead.
They call themselves the Problem Solvers Caucus and is evenly divided into 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats.
And two of the group members are from Michigan: Democrat Debbie Dingell and Republican Fred Upton. Dingell and Upton were in Grand Rapids Tuesday holding a virtual conversation on civility.
House members Dingell and Upton along with caucus co-chair Thomas Reed of New York, talked about what their group has done and what they would still like to achieve.
Congressman Upton noted, “One of the things that the Problem Solvers did, and we identified this early — how do we get through part of this crap? We had to change the rules, and we did. Credit to the Democrats as well as the Republicans, but the Democrats were in the hot seat because they took the majority two years ago. But they said we’re not going to vote for the speaker and Republicans would have done the same thing unless we change the rules to make this more bipartisan.”
Also present in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, congresswoman Debbie Dingell said she would like to see relationships in Congress restored and for them to get to know and listen to each other.
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