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Forty-four (44) former US Senators have written an open letter to their successors and published it in the Washington Post.
NPR interviewed one of the authors, William Cohen (R-Maine), this morning.
Their primary concern seems to be that the Senate, as designed, works as a single body to draft legislation and support or defeat proposals. It's supposed to balance the mostly partisan methods of the House. Cohen clarifies, in the interview, that lack of cohesion in the Senate will lead, may already have led, to tyranny and a lack of international faith in the US as a world leader.
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NPR interviewed one of the authors, William Cohen (R-Maine), this morning.
Their primary concern seems to be that the Senate, as designed, works as a single body to draft legislation and support or defeat proposals. It's supposed to balance the mostly partisan methods of the House. Cohen clarifies, in the interview, that lack of cohesion in the Senate will lead, may already have led, to tyranny and a lack of international faith in the US as a world leader.
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