What Congress Is Actually Good At

Let’s be honest: It’s fun to mock Congress as a pack of self-serving, short-sighted, do-nothing clowns incapable of legislating their way out of a paper bag. It’s fun because, in so many regards, it’s true. Particularly when it comes to funding the government, dysfunction rules--to the point where it’s considered a miracle when lawmakers pass even two or three appropriations bills through regular order before the process devolves into a mishmash of standoffs, continuing resolutions, omnibuses, and/or “minibuses.”

The gridlock only hardens during presidential election years. For months now, lawmakers (especially on the Senate side) have been in acute foot-dragging mode, debating as few bills and taking as few votes as possible before November 8.  

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