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- iHaveNet.com: Politics
by Tierney Sneed
When lawmakers were courageous and willing to compromise
With the partisan gridlock marring the legislative branch of late, it's hard to believe that anything ever got done in the U.S. Capitol. However, from the early 1960s to 1980, the
How were the two decades of what you call the Great Senate different from how the
Historically and particularly in the 20th century, the
Why was the
It was a combination of an unusual group of people who had a shared experience, first in World War II and then during the Cold War -- an unusual group of people who came together at a particular time in American history when there were great challenges but we also had a very prosperous economy. There was much more of a shared consensus about politics then -- a positive view of America, what government could accomplish, and the kind of progressive consensus that existed in that period. In that sense, it was quite unusual.
What were some of the greatest accomplishments of the last Great Senate?
The Panama Canal treaties were an extraordinary accomplishment. Presidents going back to Eisenhower had thought we should have a new arrangement for governing the canal and that the arrangement we had was a product of the high-water mark of U.S. imperialism. Carter was the only one that stepped up to it and the
How were Democratic Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Republican Minority Leader Howard Baker able to work together?
Their concept of the
What can the current
The main lesson is that people who have the privilege of being senators -- and it's a great privilege -- they have to represent their states and they don't have to forget what political party they're in, but their
Will the
Looking at what's happened, it's difficult to be optimistic. We live in a very vitriolic political culture, and it's much more difficult to be a senator than it used to be -- much different kinds of pressures, much greater pressures. For that reason I think it is all the more important that the senators have to rise above it. I think we need men and women of ability and character to sort of make the
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