What Is More Dysfunctional Than Functional Congress

Since the First United States Congress meeting in 1789 to Current meetings in Capital building there has been speculation about how functional Congress is. Whether someone thinks Congress is Dysfunctional like Ezra Klein, or they are trying to defend Congress like Lee H. Hamilton, it has to be understood that Congress is a very complex institution that has its ups and its downs. Although in the past 100 years congress has been more dysfunctional than functional. A man who has been working his entire life to improve the United States left Congress, he left because he felt like he wasn’t serving the society anymore. Bayh decided because congress is so dysfunctional that he would rather leave and work in a job that directly affected society …show more content…
Congress is supposed to improve and benefit society but because of the tricks and strings being pulled nothing can get done. The most common reason that nothing is getting done is congress is because congressmen are leaving major decisions for later generations to “deal” with. Putting problems in a pigeonholed so they will never see the light of day. This has gotten to the point where other companies are trying to take action because congress will not. The EPA is attempting to take action to regulate carbon in the US because of congress not taking action. The only action that congress is trying to take at this point is to stop the EPA, although the majority vote it to regulate carbon emissions. There are few times when Congress can “get its act together” and pass a bill to become law, such as TARP. TARP was passed quickly but once it was enforced there were any problems with …show more content…
Hamilton is a former representative, he has had first had experience about the good and the bad in Congress. Due to Social Media there is a certain view of congress that is sold to the audience. Congress does nothing, they are always in scandals, they waist the money of Taxpayers on petty thing that will help them get reelected. As in everything there are good and bad members of Congress, and congress has improved over the years. Congress does not waste money, they do spend millions on things that improve the community. This is many times portrayed by social media as frivolous spending, because Congressmen decide to spend millions on a statue when there are more oppressing matters at hand. There is also a lot of controversy over the fact that congress can only make decisions on things like which statue to build and bicker over EVERYTHING else. The decisions made in congress are not simple, whether or not to limit carbon emissions into the ozone is easy so see that not that’s bad we need to make it stop. If that was the entire discussion congress wouldn’t have the label of indecisive and argumentative, but unknown to most people Congress also has to provide a resolution to the problem. This is the part where discussion comes in, many people have very strong opinions about this and lobbyist offer a very helpful