Jared Huffman: “I would like to ask you, Secretary Zinke, about the Administration's very ambitious proposal for new offshore drilling.”

It’s a huge challenge I face in getting my colleagues in Congress to be interested in protecting church-state separation against this movement.

My answer is simple. We’ll use those tools. We’ll act like the Congress.

Folding our hand now or in the lame duck makes no sense when we can keep working on this and, in a few more months, have a much better deal that works for everyone.

I am thinking a lot these days about the final unraveling of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.