I always wondered why so much interesting legislation was passed during Nixon’s era. Turns out that “Congress remade its committees in the 1970s to challenge Richard Nixon’s presidency and move power to rank-and-file lawmakers.” Today resources (and power) are with the leadership and the executive not the grassroots lawmakers.
How industry and the White House took charge of the legislative process.
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/01/11/feature/why-is-congress-so-dumb/
