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The House arrived at that number because of political expediency — and it has stayed there because of it, too.

HOW THE HOUSE GOT STUCK AT 435 SEATSGEOFFREY SKELLEY (GEOFFREY.SKELLEY@ABC.COM)AUGUST 12, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHT

The 14 members of the panel have spent the past several months grappling with questions about balancing fairness and expediency.

The only reason, the only thing that changed is the political expediency.

Mr. Jackson supposed that Parliament had a right to tax America, but he much doubted the expediency of the present act.

But Nature's voice is far less often heard than that of her adversary, expediency.

Hard is the contest between affection and expediency, when it is raised by the question of circumstances.

Therefore our political questions have been questions of expediency rather than of principle.

The justice of the measure was not less evident than its expediency.

The complaint that it sanctions 'expediency' is a simple fallacy.

The question was no longer one of ethics, but purely of expediency.

HIDDEN GOLDWILDER ANTHONY

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