Mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays sena
Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is titled kwoek broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will todays senate be up
Institution. Mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this is titled kwoek can thed, broken senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is
Think. Broken can the senate save itself and the country . And im just curious what is your conclusion to that question . Guest tom first of all im thrilled to have a conversation with you. When cspan told me that you were going to do it i felt like i had won the lottery, to see an old friend but also a great senator and Senate Leader and an author too on this subject. They can get much better than that. Host thank you. Im flattered. Guest the easy answer is that the jury is still out on how its going to go. What i tried to convey in the book was first the senate has declined over long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades and the senate has declined in a way, the decline goes like that and then its deepens over the last nine or 10 years. What we are facing now i believe its a very diminished diminished and weakened we didnt senate at precisely the time that we need a strong one. All of a sudden we are facing the possibility, lets say we are the facing th
The books title is intriguing, the broken, can the senate save itself in the country. Im curious, what is your conclusion to that question. Tom, first of all, im thrilled to be having a conversation with you. When cspan told me you were going to do it, i felt like i had won the lottery. To see an old friend but also also great senator and Senate Leader and an author on this subject. You cant do much better than that. Thank you. I am flattered. The easy answer is that your jury is still out on how it will go. When i tried to convey in the book was, first that the senate has declined over a long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades for the senate has declined in a way where it sort of goes like that and it stevens over the last nine or ten years. What we are facing now is a very diminished and weakened senate at precisely the time we need a strong one. All of a sudden we are facing the possibility, lets say we were facing the possibility of an inexperience