
Congressional Rules Are Not the Problem — Petty Partisanship Is
The intricacies of lawmaking have long sowed discord among the public, as majority parties rise and fall alongside elected representatives who have occupied the revered Oval Office. Time appears only to ingrain party lines on Capitol Hill and beyond, giving rise to clauses covertly affixing themselves to complex bills, filibusters that are anything but fleeting, and legislature tuned so finely in order to meet the demands of its opponents, their original purpose is indecipherable. Yet,