Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform

by Kevin R. Kosar

Book Overview

Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn't have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022670257X
• ISBN13: 9780226702575
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"