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Is the Broken Branch on the Mend? An Early Report on the 110th Congress

U.S. Congress, U.S. Politics, Congressional Oversight, Governance, Politics

Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Sarah A. Binder, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Molly Reynolds, Research Assistant, Governance Studies

The Brookings Institution

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