Jeffrey Sachs
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We have a workable system.
It's actually worked quite brilliantly at times.
It's a pretty complicated machinery.
It could be updated in some pretty useful ways.
But I used to work for some years in internship positions in the Congress in the 1970s.
And Congress actually worked as an institution, for example.
It held hearings.
It wrote papers.
It proposed legislation.
It actually did things.
There were leaders, Fulbright and others, who spoke out and wrote brilliant books and did all sorts of things.
wonderful things.
And I met many of them as a kid.
And that idea that there was a legislative branch where you would have lions of the Senate and the House of Representatives and a speaker who would be an independent voice of politics as the People's Tribune.
It actually worked to an extent.
It really did.
I was there.
I watched it.
I saw it.
I quite loved it.