Date:
April 30, 2012
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue:
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Address:
Fifth Floor Conference Room, One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC
Many have commented on how much Congress has changed over the last 40 years for a variety of reasons, most noticeably from the increasing importance of political parties in the legislative process and their increased polarization from each other. Has this trend toward what some political scientists have termed, "conditional party government" provided a sharper choice for voters to choose from or has it pushed Congress into a parliamentary cul de sac with no central accountability exit ramps at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue? These were some of the questions this roundtable of former members, congressional staff and area political scientists tackled along with the ultimate question of whether there is any way to restore a greater measure of deliberation and bipartisan national problem-solving.
Professor Julian E. Zelizer
Princeton University
Tom Downey
Former Representative from New York
Vin Weber
Former Representative from Minnesota
Don Wolfensberger
Resident Scholar, BPC
Congressional Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
John Fortier
Director, BPC's Democracy Project
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