David Davenport: A Cancer Growing on Congress
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There is a cancer growing on Congress. It is the curse of party-line voting. The biggest legislation of the Trump administration is the tax bill, passed with only Republican votes. And the biggest of the Obama administration: Obamacare, again passed on a party-line vote with only Democrats.
Party-line voting has grown dramatically in the last 40 years. In the 1970s, party unity voting was around 60 percent but today it is 90 percent. Sadly it has become the new normal.
Such partisanship is cancerous because it cuts out all the people and ideas of one political party. And it leads to rushed votes, without the expected give and take and amendments of a quality legislative process. It also leads to weak laws because what can be passed by one party’s vote can be undone later by the other party’s vote.
This is no way to run a government. I vote for more collaboration and less hyper-partisanship in 2018.
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