PARTISANSHIP AND CAPIITOL GRIDLOCK
Partisanship and Capitol
Gridlock Necessary to
Evolve
With the Capitol in turmoil and an argument erupting over
procedural rules, one senator charged toward another until his
pistol was drawn. With that, the Senate adjourned for the day.
In a seperate instance, a speech on the Senate floor launching
salacious charges toward a member of the House caused the
Congressman to enter the chamber and attack the good senator
with a cane. The beating lasted a full minute, leaving the senator
bleeding severely and nearly dead.
No, these stories are not from the 2013 government shutdown.
These refer to the 1850 showdown between Senators Thomas
Benton (D-MO) and Henry Foote (D-MS) and the 1856 rumble
between Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA) and Representative
Preston Brooks (D-SC), respectively. There are many stories
of strife and conflict in our nation’s capitol. Thankfully, we’ve
learned to bypass violence in favor of more constructive ways of
managing conflict, but partisanship and capitol gridlock are part
of our history.
As often as people grow frustrated with Washington, let’s not
forget this: Much of it is by design. The framers deliberately
built gridlock into the process, with corrective mechanisms,
to provide checks on the party in power.
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the debt limit, and the implementation of the Affordable
Care Act? Of course not. NWFPA joined 251 organizations in
a joint letter to Congress urging swift action on the debt limit
along with the immediate and necessary corrective actions to
restrain both discretionary and mandatory federal spending. Lurching from one budget and debt crisis to the next is
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