Why Congress?

Published: July 10, 2023, 2:09 p.m.

In this week\u2019s episode of Politics In Question, Philip Wallach joins Lee and James to talk about Congress, how it\u2019s broken, and how we can fix it. Philip is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies America\u2019s separation of powers, with a focus on regulatory policy issues and the relationship between Congress and the administrative state. Philip\u2019s latest book is Why Congress (Oxford University Press, 2023).\n\nHow broken is today\u2019s Congress? What is Congress\u2019s job? How has it performed that job differently throughout its history? What has changed in Congress over the past few decades? Who changed it? And what do Americans want out of Congress? These are some of the questions that Philip, Lee, and James ask in this week\u2019s episode.