(AGENPARL) – STANFORD (CA) mar 30 maggio 2023

Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis
High Road Books, 2022

Summary: In Breakdown: Lessons for a Congress in Crisis, former U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, who represented New Mexico for 30 years, traces the development of congressional dysfunction over more than three decades and provides eight case studies that examine how the crisis affects our government’s ability to meet major policy challenges. Bingaman writes about the successes of the legislative process that he witnessed as a senator, but focuses primarily on the breakdown of governing norms and the radical increases in polarization and partisanship that he says now plague what was once called the world’s greatest deliberative body. Presenting analysis of the causes and consequences of the dysfunction in Congress, Breakdown shows how Congress fails at the tasks Americans expect it to perform and, more importantly, how it might begin again to succeed.

Praise: “Throughout his career in the Senate, Jeff Bingaman was always someone I and his other colleagues could count on to take a deliberative approach and provide sage counsel to help drive progress on the most pressing issues facing the country. His insightful analysis of the impediments to successful governance and how to overcome them make Breakdown essential reading for anyone entering public service.” —Former Vice President Al Gore

“Every American should read Jeff Bingaman’s new book, Breakdown. Like Bingaman’s service in the Senate, it is full of common sense and in-depth understanding. Whether it is the issues we must solve to become an ever-more-prosperous country or the reforms we must pass to remain a responsive democracy, Bingaman goes to the heart of the matter. He not only diagnoses the problems but offers solutions and in doing so offers us hope.”  —Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley

“In his thirty years in the Senate, Jeff Bingaman earned his reputation as a thoughtful and intelligent lawmaker, a problem solver, and one of the key constructive forces in Congress. Now he has taken his insights from those decades in public service to write a penetrating book about the key policy areas of our time, including the direct challenges to governance and democracy. If you care about America and its future, read this book.” —Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

Fonte/Source: https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/in-print-jeff-bingaman-llb-68/