The Senate`s status as “the world’s greatest deliberative body”, as
President James Buchanan allegedly described it, has been exaggerated
for a while. Legislation is accomplished not through considered debate,
but rushed, secretive crafting of law by senior party leaders on the eve
of some cataclysmic deadline. In the past decade this brinkmanship has
led to one struggle over “sequestration” (spending caps), two
debt-ceiling crises and three shutdowns of the federal government, but
little in the way of substantive lawmaking.
The same dynamic will shape the latest gargantuan stimulus package needed to cushion the fallout from the epidemic of covid-19. But this time, the consequences of brinkmanship and delay could be even more severe.
Read more at:
Congress and covid - America’s backwards coronavirus strategy | United States | The Economist
The same dynamic will shape the latest gargantuan stimulus package needed to cushion the fallout from the epidemic of covid-19. But this time, the consequences of brinkmanship and delay could be even more severe.
Read more at:
Congress and covid - America’s backwards coronavirus strategy | United States | The Economist
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