{"id":3421,"date":"2016-08-22T09:46:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2016-08-22T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T13:46:35","slug":"a-case-for-stronger-congressional-committees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-case-for-stronger-congressional-committees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Stronger Congressional Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3422\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/a-case-for-stronger-congressional-committees-2\/kosar-chan-congressional-committees\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees.png\" data-orig-size=\"716,216\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar Chan congressional committees\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees-300x91.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3422\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees.png\" alt=\"Kosar Chan congressional committees\" width=\"716\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees.png 716w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Kosar-Chan-congressional-committees-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a>With congressional partisanship at record highs and congressional\u00a0approval ratings at record lows, the federal government\u2019s\u00a0so-called \u201cfirst branch\u201d should consider reform.\u00a0Two recent white papers (one analyzing\u00a0the House;the\u00a0other,\u00a0the Senate) cast light on the nature of the admittedly\u00a0complex problem. Together this research suggests that a significant\u00a0amount of power has shifted to the chambers\u2019 leaders.\u00a0The legislature has shifted from a \u201ctransformative legislature,\u201d\u00a0which generates and develops legislation, toward\u00a0an \u201carena,\u201d which functions to display political clashes or\u00a0position-taking on externally generated legislation&#8230;. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/66.pdf\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With congressional partisanship at record highs and congressional\u00a0approval ratings at record lows, the federal government\u2019s\u00a0so-called \u201cfirst branch\u201d should consider reform.\u00a0Two recent white papers (one analyzing\u00a0the House;the\u00a0other,\u00a0the Senate) cast light on the nature of the admittedly\u00a0complex problem. Together this research suggests that a significant\u00a0amount of power has shifted to the chambers\u2019 leaders.\u00a0The legislature has shifted from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-r-street-policy-study"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-Tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3423,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}