An Alternate Political Universe

If any congressional committee were set up to fail, it was the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. It was evenly split: six Republicans and six Democrats, so you do the math. Oh, and its mission? To fix Congress. No biggie.

So how did it manage to adopt, in just four years, 202 bipartisan recommendations, about two-thirds of which have already been executed or made significant progress in that direction? What in God’s name is going on over there?

This story was published in the Washington Post on Feb. 9, 2023.