{"id":15503,"date":"2021-05-18T05:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2021-05-18T05:57:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T09:57:58","slug":"wait-is-the-system-actually-working-why-congress-is-a-lot-more-effective-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=15503","title":{"rendered":"Wait, is the System Actually Working? Why Congress is a Lot More Effective than you Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a perception that Congress is totally gridlocked, and that the parties do nothing but bicker. But our expert guest says that maybe we&#8217;re all being a little too negative, because actually, Congress gets more done while you&#8217;re not looking than you&#8217;d think. And despite the historic problems we&#8217;ve seen recently (think insurrection), the system is kind of holding together. Frances Lee is a Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, and the Associate Chair of the Department of Politics at Princeton University.<br \/>\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/wait-is-system-actually-working-why-congress-is-lot\/id1369437819?i=1000522050353\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a perception that Congress is totally gridlocked, and that the parties do nothing but bicker. But our expert guest says that maybe we&#8217;re all being a little too negative, because actually, Congress gets more done while you&#8217;re not looking than you&#8217;d think. And despite the historic problems we&#8217;ve seen recently (think insurrection), the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beyondpolitics"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/qtq80-MCLw3O.jpeg?fit=2160%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15504,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}