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Senate No Longer Works for Americans
By George J. Marlin
Friday, 12 April 2024 12:52 PM EDT
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Like most of Washington, the U.S. Senate has not been working all that well. Too many members of that august body are more concerned with grinding out press releases, gabbing ad nauseam before the cameras and racing back home to announce pork barrel goodies for favored interest groups.
Yes, too much of a senator’s time is devoted to making headlines.
The Founding Fathers had a very different view of the job. The Senate was to be a forum where its members could deliberate on important issues. Having six-year terms, they were expected to make sound judgments, to restrain hotheads in the House of Representatives and to reject legislation based on momentary political whims or the latest public opinion polls.
Senators, the Founders hoped, would adhere to the maxim of the great British statesman, Edmund Burke, “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
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