Congress in Crisis

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this episode, Andrew gets into the weeds of congressional reform with Kevin Kosar, an 11-year veteran of the Congressional Research Service and now a resident fellow at AEI. Andrew and Kevin talk about the Hastert rule, the best shape of table for getting work done, the collective action problem in Congress, and why Congress needs to hire more people instead of bragging about how little they spend on staff. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4GRfX-F2jXU Congress Overwhelmed - https://amzn.to/47mc19r Follow Kevin Kosar: https://twitter.com/kevinrkosar | https://kevinrkosar.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on forward.
0:03.0	Just about every aspect of Congress as an entity is either inadequate in some degree or out of date.
0:13.0	It drives me crazy that you have these folks on Capitol Hill who proclaim that they're
0:19.5	miserable, yell at the institution there within, then frequently won't lift a finger to make
0:25.8	the changes that they can make. There is so much to be done because government is
0:30.9	so much bigger than it was 50 or 100 years ago.
0:34.2	And instead of prioritizing things that are important and substantive,
0:39.4	it was so much symbolic stuff being put into the legislative process. It's my pleasure to welcome to the podcast Political Scientist Senior Fellow at
0:59.6	AEEI which is a think tank and author of the Prussian book,
1:04.4	Congress overwhelmed the decline in congressional capacity and prospects for reform.
1:10.6	Kevin Kosar, welcome Kevin.
1:12.2	Thank you for having me on. No problem. I'm
1:15.0	excited to talk to you because you are one of the preeminent thinkers on what
1:19.4	the heck is going on or not going on in terms of our institutions.
1:24.0	First, can you give people a bit of your background?
1:26.0	You have a doctorate in political science from NYU?
1:29.0	Yeah, I went to NYU and got my master's and PhD there, wrote a dissertation on how Congress had historically
1:37.2	handled K through 12 education policy, and then after that I thought it was going to be an academic but I ended up
1:44.0	taking what I thought would be a two-year gig at the Congressional Research
1:49.6	Service, the core of nerds inside the Library of Congress and that turned into 11 years and then
1:56.3	after that wonderful experience I hopped to the private think tank world where I've
2:02.3	been the last nine years.
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