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Let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill gallston. Im a senior fellow in governance studies. Thank you 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 one entitled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of oh you who 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 yet another shortterm continuing budget resolution and perhaps even more pertinently, from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. ....
The easy answer of course is that the jury is still out on how its going to go. What i tried to convey in the bookwas first , the senate has declined over a long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades. Precise of the time that we need a strong one. All of a sudden we are facing the possibility of lets say we were facing the possibility of an inexperienced reckless, perhaps irresponsible, maybe authoritarian president. You would want a strong senate. We do not have one. The senate saved itself, changed from the downward spiral it has been on. And then step up to his responsibilities. And that is kind of the question. The book is optimistic in certain ways. I have already been criticized by someone who said you are too optimistic. It is optimistic because i believe, and we have seen recent evidence of it, that so many of the senators are disgusted with the institution the way it has been. You have written about this and you know. It is one of the least wellk ....
[inaudible conversations] let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow here in governance stud ies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past and the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one entitled broken, can the senate save itself and the country. Those of you who read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an an answers institution and will not know howdy how distress as decline this topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of yet another shortterm continuing budget re solution 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 to the job of an open deliberation on the most bu ....
Hes interviewed by tom daschle. This is a weekly Interview Program with relevant guesthouse interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. Welcome. Im thrilled to have an opportunity to talk with you about your book. The books title is in triggering, the broken. Can the senate save itself in the country . What is your conclusion . Guest im thrilled to have a conversation with you, when cspan told me you were going to do it i felt i had won the lottery. To see an old friend and also a great senator and Senate Leader and an author on the subject, you cant much better. The easy answer is that the jury is out on how its going to go. What i try to convey in the book was first that the senate has declined for a long period of time, not a couple of years, more like a couple of decades. The senate has declined in a way goes like that then stevens over the last nine or t ....