Maintain a competitive market. The Hudson Institute hosts the hourlong conversation from earlier this week. Good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth. Im a fellow here at the Hudson Institute. Ill be your host for today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have with us the honorable makan delrahim, assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs no introduction. And he has been working in and around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume, which you can find at the department of justices website. Before we get started, i have two requests. One is if you could take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interpretations of that sort. The second is for the q a session, we will have cards that you can write questions and those cards are going to be passed around. You can write your questions. Theyll be collected. And ill sort through those. We
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is harold furchtgottroth, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and i will be your host today. Thank you so much for joining us. We are very pleased and honored to have witnessed the honorable makan delrahim, the assistant attorney general at the u. S. Department of justice. He needs to introduction, and he has been working around issues related to antitrust for a great deal of time. He has a very distinguished resume which you can find at the department of justice website. Before we get started i have two requests. One is if you take your cell phone and put it on silent mode so that we dont have unnecessary interruptions of that sort. The second is for the q a session we will have cards that you can write questions, and those cards are going to be passed around and you can write your questions. They will be collected and i will sort through those. We particularly would like to welcome our cspan guests and or other guests that are watch
Good afternoon, everyone. First off, id like to thank the Clermont Institute for sponsoring this panel and for sponsoring all of its panels here at the american Political Science association, and thanks to all of you for coming to hear whether congress is still dysfunctional. I suspect you already know the answer to the question, but maybe well provide a fuller background and explanation about whats going on these days on capitol hill. Its no secret to political scientists that congress is a mess. Its no secret to the members of congress that congress is a mess. And nor is it a secret to the American People that congress is a mess. Routinely, congress polls very poorly when people are asked whether they approve of the job its doing, and this trend is bipartisan whether democrats or republicans control congress, most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also long standing. Over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved an Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this wa
And academics are part of this discussion hosted by american Political Science association. Routinely congress pulled very portable people as whether they approved of the job it is doing. This trend is bipartisan whether democrats or Republicans Control Congress most people assign it a failing grade. The trend is also a longstandig peer over the past Decade Congress has not once achieved Approval Rating above 30 . It wasnt always this way. During the 1990s congress Approval Rating typically were in the 40s and 50s. Today they hover in the teens and the 20s. Once thought to be the great repository of americas republican Principles Congress is now referred to as a broken branch. Why exactly has Congress Come to this point . What are the causes of the dysfunction . Has anything changed since trumps election and the democratic takeover of the house . Can this longstanding state of affairs be changed . Can congress be reformed, it is so what do we need to do to reform it . To answer these q
160th congress 116th congress. The American Political Science Association hosted this 90 minute event. Association, live coverage here thanks to all of you for coming to hear about whether or not congress is still dysfunctional. A fulle will provide background of whats going on on capitol hill. It is no secret to political scientists, nor to the members of congress or the american people, that congress is a mess. Congress routinely polls poorly and this trend is bipartisan. Republicanscrats or control congress, most assigned us a failing grade. Over the past decade, congress has not once approved in Approval Rating over 30 . During the 1990s, congresss 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 . What are the causes of congresss dysfunction . Has anything changed since trumps election and the democratic takeov