Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Congress is dysfunctional.
There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.
You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
I've had a growing conviction that Congress is not operating as it should. There is much too much partisanship and not enough progress.
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.
Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores.
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Congress is not an ATM.