A good place for a citizen to test his faith in democracy is the gallery of the U. S. House of Representatives. Down below, in that swarm of 435 members, small men, bound by the small necessities of politics, outnumber big men. House debate often sounds like an aimless caterwauling; order, purpose, logic more often than not seem lost in a parliamentary jungle. Yet there is order, of a kind. It is arranged and enforced by a few members: the Majority and Minority Leaders, the chairmen and ranking members of key committees (Rules, Ways...
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