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American Political Science Review. Alabama Politics in Doc's Political Parlor. Triangle Fire . American Experience . WGBH. Why Congress Is So Dysfunctional. The Sunday talk shows again this week devoted a lot of attention to the dysfunction of Congress. In fact, it was the theme of Face the Nation, which featured two members of the Senate with a reputation for bipartisanship, Democrat Bayh of Indiana and Republican Graham of South Carolina. The degree of Congressional dysfunction is debatable. Make comparisons: The number of votes cast, or days worked, or bills introduced versus those enacted into law. Or apply a historical perspective. Most congresses since the first in 1789 have been considered dysfunctional to some degree or another, and since the founding of the nation there has been a running debate over whether it was the intent of the Founders to inject more than a little dysfunction into the process to keep the Federal Government confined.
There are at least six fundamental reasons for the Congressional curse. 1. The great irony is that there’s only one institution that can fix those six problems: Congress.