.RMF PROP 2 x x x x [J ASJ MDPR x x x x A [Audio Streamaudio/x-pn-realaudio ^.ra .ra5 N x 6 x D D genrcook % MDPR b logical-fileinfo $ $ + Audiences 450k Download (VBR); audioMode voice - Creation Date 8/12/2007 23:41:15 Description The Democrats won the 2006 congressional elections in part because of Congressional scandals. Two of Washington's senior scholarly commentators on politics, Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein, have called Congress, "the broken branch." But what's really broken, and can it be mended? Scott Lilly has served as both Staff Director and Minority Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee, as Executive Director of the Joint Economics Committee, as Executive Director of the Democratic Study Group (DSG), and as Chief of Staff to Representative David Obey. In those positions he has been a close observer of and participant in both efforts to reform Congress, in which the DSG and Rep. Obey have often taken the lead, and how Congress does its most basic work, exercising its power of the purse. He will comment on current criticisms of Congress, on what the Democrats did upon taking control and on what might still be done. Then we will have an open discussion with questions from Professor White and the audience. - Generated By Easy Real Converter Keywords 1 Modification Date 8/12/2007 23:41:15 videoMode normal CONT 6Reforming Congress: Can "The Broken Branch" be Mended? (Scott Lilly Center for American Progress ?Center for Policy Studies Case Western Reserve University, 2006 DATASC w5CSÞ>7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777wǺX%j4>ʋ1'!~odiʖ}}A?c bʌHKC>~=^FlozDrt!5_ .$',4kr[`;-+9}vukXm lt.C*֖cM"}g""hbZ/,kl$`ȏX 薹ڒ*dB#)1-ʫ51Ƣ^SOs'D2;qzBp/N+0Fm _!kfE :wz &jƶT $8lK<>Ҟd'V-ih=7z-e/l`JXujԳf{Ju.cW$ggIv謕5k