Congress Used to Work. What Happened?
The United States Congress has undergone a dramatic decline in power, functionality, and public esteem over the past four decades, ceding authority to the executive branch and succumbing to partisan extremism, gerrymandering, and the influence of big money. This erosion, accelerated by fi
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