Recommended - Our Broken Senate

I recommend the article Our Broken Senate, by Norman Ornstein in the March/April 2008 Issue of The American, the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute. As originally conceived, the Senate was supposed to be the slower, more deliberative legislative body, tempering the more populist, impulsive tendencies of the House. That was a wise choice, but over the decades the Senate has evolved a number of dysfunctional procedures that give too much obstructive power to individual Senators.