[taps gavel] all right. Never, the than meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Oversightthis committee likes to shake things up and we are looking to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is this committees mandate. Have actively participated in the work of this committee. Representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will agree we are in very capable hands. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think you will recall, in the early days scanlan . Think we should all just adjourning go for ice cream. Ok. Thank you, chairman kilmer. I would like to begin by our expert witnesses. Sorry we are
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Of South Carolina led the hearing. [taps gavel] all right. Hearing is setting members up for success. I now recognize myself or five minutes to give an opening statement. As is usually the case im not going to take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you who have attended past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i
All right. Better late than never, the meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Those of you whd past hearings no as committee sometimes likes to shake things up, and today, were looking at ways to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is part of our committees mandate. We figured what better way to showcase the next generation of leaders would be to future this committee of to feature this. Ommittees freshmen members we have benefited from their unique perspective as freshmen members. Resentative tendons representative tendons representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will a
Pollsess pulls poorly poorly and this trend is bipartisan. Democrats and republicans, most assignment a failing grade. Over the past decade, congress has not once approved in Approval Rating over 30 . Congresss 990s, Approval Ratings were in the 40s and the 50s. Today, they are in the teens and 20s. Once thought to be the great repository of americas republican principles, it is now a broken branch. Why has Congress Come to this point . Martha causes . Has anything changed since trumps election and the democratic takeover of the house . Can this state of affairs be changed . To answer this question, we have assembled a distinguished panel of experts on congress with a variety of perspectives and i will introduce them quickly in alphabetical order. I will introduce them all so we can launch into their remarks. Our first speaker is catherine pearson, associate professor of Political Science at the university of minnesota. She worked for several years as an assistant to several members of