Congress is in the process of taking to agency heads and CEOs to task for failings in the jobs they are doing. Who’s taking Congress to task for its failures to do its job of legislating. Issues of immigration, deficit and debt, solvency of Medicare and Social Security, medical care, drug prices and more are poorly dealt with or not dealt with at all.
Elections are not viable means to keep Congress working effectively. They come up for election only ever so many years. They are at the mercy of big donors. They are masters of negative and misleading advertising. They don’t allow adequate access for voters to ask pertinent questions.
What if each state had a panel of citizens with the authority to summons members of Congress before them for questioning relative to their performances. For example, Congress is now grilling the CEO of Norfolk Southern (legitimately), but who is grilling the Republicans who legislated the lifting of regulations on railroads?
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