It was an exhausting week for House Republicans. They scrambled to end the 76-day Homeland Security shutdown, move a contentious farm bill, and avert a midnight expiration of the government’s key surveillance authority—ultimately managing to do all three. But members of the House Freedom Caucus still had bones to pick, furious that Senate Republicans had jammed them with their own versions of must-pass bills while stalling on other priorities, so they held a press conference to vent. “Where the hell is the Senate?” Rep. Chip Roy demanded from the Capitol steps. “The greatest deliberative body in the world—when are they deliberating?” Another conservative House Republican texted me privately, “The Senate oozes arrogance, centered around the rules of their royal court. It’s abhorrent.”