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As each new parking garage is constructed, nonfunctioning escalators are installed.

“If you have a nonfunctioning party, it’s not going to help us up and down the ballot.”

“It has become just a nonfunctioning mess,” Jordan Lynch said of the school board.

“Anybody that’s been paying attention to the Spotsylvania School Board in particular has realized, you know, it has become just a nonfunctioning mess,” said Jordan Lynch, a onetime agitator from the floor of school board meetings who has moderated his positions and voice.

But I wonder if you could just help me understand what it means to have a nonfunctioning House of Representatives at this moment.