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Norman J. Ornstein

Norman J. Ornstein is Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back On Track.

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I have been in Washington, D.C. since 1969, longer than even Representative Cooper, and I have never seen it more dysfunctional. The problems, as Cooper notes, start with partisan divisions. The National...
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