Want to actually get something done in Congress? Take a friend hostage. All the Republicans are doing it.

Together, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa, along with Deb Fischer of Nebraska, made Trump squeal last week. Grassley threatened to “hold up EPA nominees” if EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reduced the federally-mandated biofuels quota. But that octogenarian Iowan doesn’t have a seat on the Environmental and Public Works Committee. As the Wall Street Journal notes, Ernst and Fischer do — meaning Grassley calls the shots and they do the dirty work.