Opinion These radically simple changes helped lawmakers actually get things done [washingtonpost.com]

Jane Stevens 2/15/232:00 PM

By Amanda Ripley, Image: Screenshot from article, The Washington Post, February 9, 2023

We hear a lot about the shocking dysfunction in Congress. By my count, this paper has published 90 articles on the GOP’s many tortured attempts to elect a speaker and another 84 (and counting) on the debt ceiling.

But what about stories of shocking function? Lately, I find those stories even more captivating.

For example, if any congressional committee were set up to fail, it was the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. It was the only House committee in the last Congress required to get a supermajority vote of its members to get things done. But it was also evenly split: six Republicans and six Democrats, so you do the math.

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