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- The House just used an open process for amending legislation for the first time in 7 years.
- Democrats proposed nearly 60 amendments to a largely symbolic bill put forward by the GOP.
- The use of the process — a concession from McCarthy to his right flank — has some Democrats excited.
For the first time in nearly seven years, the House of Representatives did something that one might expect it to do on any normal day: engage in a relatively free-form debate over amendments to a major piece of legislation.