The problem... is that most members of Congress don't pay attention to what's going on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Congress is more broken than ever. Congressman Will Hurd has quickly become part of the problem.
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
Congress is dysfunctional.
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments pushed through or blocked, and innumerable, unnoticed meetings.
If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
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