Why can't Congress do its job?

<strong>Podcast</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/politics-in-question-julia-azari-lee-0GafgFxvRpH/">Politics in Question</a> (LS 38 &middot; TOP 2.5% <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/listen-score/"><small>what is this?</small></a>)<br><strong>Episode</strong>: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/e/5df581d8a3b547aea587074dab7ea851/">Why can't Congress do its job?</a><br><strong>Pub date</strong>: 2021-04-14<br><br><img src="https://cdn-images-1.listennotes.com/podcasts/politics-in-question-julia-azari-lee-rExTVW56XM7-0GafgFxvRpH.300x300.jpg" width="150" height="150"></img><br><p>In this week’s episode of <i>Politics In Question</i>, Kevin Kosar joins Lee and James to consider why Congress can’t do its job. <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/kevin-r-kosar/" target="_blank">Kosar</a> is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he studies Congress, the administrative state, American politics, election reform, and the US Postal Service. Before joining AEI, Kosar served as the R Street Institute’s vice president of policy, vice president of research partnerships, and senior fellow and director of the Governance Project. He also cofounded the long-running <a href="https://www.legbranch.org/" target="_blank">Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group</a> to help strengthen the legislative branch. Prior to this, Kosar spent more than a decade focusing on a wide range of public administration issues while working at the Congressional Research Service. Kosar has written numerous books and journal articles. Most recently, he co-edited <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Congress-Overwhelmed-Congressional-Capacity-Prospects/dp/022670257X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&language=en_US&linkCode=sl1&linkId=505868416666f20419d83dc3a2227110&tag=kevinrkosar-20" target="_blank"><i>Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform</i></a> (University of Chicago Press, 2020).</p><p>What is Congress’s job? Is it a place where the peoples’ representatives interac