In his thirty-year career representing the citizens of New Mexico in the US Senate, Jeff Bingaman witnessed great things accomplished through the legislative process. He also had a front-row seat for the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that now plague what was once called the world’s greatest deliberative body. Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government’s ability to meet major policy challenges. We didn’t always have a Senate that failed in its basic public obligations, including catalyzing a robust economy, confronting climate change, improving health care, fixing education, preserving public lands, and avoiding unnecessary wars. We do now.
Presenting insightful analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed.
Jeff Bingaman
Breakdown [EPUB ebook]
Lessons for a Congress in Crisis
Breakdown [EPUB ebook]
Lessons for a Congress in Crisis
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 248 ● ISBN 9780826364159 ● File size 6.7 MB ● Publisher University of New Mexico Press ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8343087 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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