{"id":4343,"date":"2020-12-07T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:21:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T13:21:03","slug":"our-overwhelmed-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/our-overwhelmed-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Our overwhelmed Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"298\" height=\"447\" data-attachment-id=\"4049\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/books\/congress-overwhelmed-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover.png\" data-orig-size=\"298,447\" 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=\"Congress overwhelmed cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover-200x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover.png 298w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Congress-overwhelmed-cover-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something remarkable happened this spring\u2014Congress\u2019s public approval rose to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1600\/congress-public.aspx\">31 percent<\/a>. If that sounds like little to celebrate, bear in mind that the percentage of Americans who are happy with Congress had not been that high since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1600\/congress-public.aspx\">August of 2009<\/a>&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legbranch.org\/our-overwhelmed-congress\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something remarkable happened this spring\u2014Congress\u2019s public approval rose to\u00a031 percent. If that sounds like little to celebrate, bear in mind that the percentage of Americans who are happy with Congress had not been that high since\u00a0August of 2009&#8230;. 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