The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track

Preface 1. Introduction 2. The First Branch of Government: Theory and Practice 3. The Seeds of the Contemporary Problem, 1969-1994 4. A Decade of Republican Control 5. Institutional Decline 6. The Case of Continuity 7. Conclusion 8. Epilogue: Is the Broken Branch on the Mend? Notes Acknowledgments Index