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We never lost the power. We just often forget we have it. One look at the PA legislative pay raise debacle proves this. (Short summary: legislators vote themselves a pay raise and weasel a way to take the raise immediately via expense accounts--even though state law prohibits the raise from taking effect till after the next election. Legislators who opposed the pay raise were punished by being stripped of committee memberships etc. People got pissed off and complained. Legislators repealed the bill.)
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