Ira2: America As A One-Party State
INTRODUCTION:
Our current period of single-party dominance is the key topic of Robert Kuttner in his article "America as a One-Party State". He lists three reasons that America could become a nation where the dominant party rules, primarily in the House of Representatives. He then states that "the internal workings" of major legislation has radically changed. The most drastic of these changes occurring since the induction of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas in 2002. DeLay has nearly eradicated floor amendments for both parties, through the rules process. Rarely before the DeLay "revolution" did any bill pass from a conference committee. Then the trouble with voting machines were complicated by the fact that the top producers of the new machines were backed by Republicans, and all worried about the poorest of Americans not being competent enough to use those "ATM type" machines. There are still more reasons for this split, this divided government, but Kuttner says......
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