{"id":5669,"date":"2026-02-24T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5669"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:37:18","slug":"congress-remains-the-heart-of-our-constitutional-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/congress-remains-the-heart-of-our-constitutional-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Remains the Heart of Our Constitutional System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"449\" data-attachment-id=\"3498\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/does-congress-finally-get-that-business-as-usual-should-not-continue\/us-capitol-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1140,500\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Getty Images\\\/iStockphoto&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 550D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Capitol Hill Washington DC&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1376923625&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;27&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;508699668&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"us-capitol\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-300x132.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-1024x449.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-1024x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-1024x449.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol-768x337.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/US-Capitol.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Congress is a frustrating and sometimes ridiculous institution. Yet it is the heart of our constitutional system. Not the presidency. Not the judiciary. I admit this is not an easy argument to make these days. Every time any of us go online or turn on a news program or read about Capitol Hill, we see toxic behavior among people who are supposed to be adults and sworn officers of the Constitution. We also see relentless partisanship and gratuitous insults&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.substack.com\/p\/congress-remains-the-heart-of-our\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is a frustrating and sometimes ridiculous institution. Yet it is the heart of our constitutional system. Not the presidency. Not the judiciary. I admit this is not an easy argument to make these days. Every time any of us go online or turn on a news program or read about Capitol Hill, we see [&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":[247],"class_list":["post-5669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-kosar-on-congress-and-governance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669","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=5669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5669\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}