Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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Yuval Levin, a senior fellow at AEI, says Congress has become "the most dysfunctional" branch of our government. "Congress is sitting on the sidelines watching it happen and functioning as a kind of commentariat rather than as the chief actor in the system."
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