host: philip wallach is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. we are talking about his book "why congress." we have plenty of calls for you. this is joe for democrats. good morning. caller: happy new year, john. happy new year, philip. host: what is your question or comment? caller: we are talking about the book, "why congress." partisan politics, it seems to me it has been a bigger problem in the last half a dozen years, and it seems to continue. when i think about when we vote for in the senate and president, everybody gets to vote. you walk in, make a vote, you do not have to share who you voted for. i realize that congressmen and his senate representatives are elected by constituents who are supposed to represent the towns, cities, the states they come from. but what happens is you have hundreds of senators and member trying to get the same thing passed. it seems to get caught up in partisan politics. the other part i noticed is many times when a big bill comes up, 100% of republicans will vote one way and 100% of the democrats will vote ano

host: philip wallach is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute. we are talking about his book "why congress." we have plenty of calls for you. this is joe for democrats. good morning. caller: happy new year, john. happy new year, philip. host: what is your question or comment? caller: we are talking about the book, "why congress." partisan politics, it seems to me it has been a bigger problem in the last half a dozen years, and it seems to continue. when i think about when we vote for in the senate and president, everybody gets to vote. you walk in, make a vote, you do not have to share who you voted for. i realize that congressmen and his senate representatives are elected by constituents who are supposed to represent the towns, cities, the states they come from. but what happens is you have hundreds of senators and member trying to get the same thing passed. it seems to get caught up in partisan politics. the other part i noticed is many times when a big bill comes up, 100% of republicans will vote one way and 100% of the democrats will vote ano

host: philip wallach is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute.e talking about his book "why congress." we have plenty of calls for you. this is joe for democrats. good morning. caller: happy new year, john. happy new year, philip. host: what is your question or comment? caller: we are talking about the book, "why congress." partisan politics, it seems to me it has been a bigger problem in the last half a dozen years, and it seems to continue. when i think about when we vote for in the senate and president, everybody gets to vote. you walk in, make a vote, you do not have to share who you voted for. i realize that congressmen and his senate representatives are elected by constituents who are supposed to represent the towns, cities, the states they come from. but what happens is you have hundreds of senators and member trying to get the same thing passed. it seems to get caught up in partisan politics. the other part i noticed is many times when a big bill comes up, 100% of republicans will vote one way and 100% of the democrats will vote another w

host: philip wallach is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute.talking about his book "why congress." we have plenty of calls for you. this is joe for democrats. good morning. caller: happy new year, john. happy new year, philip. host: what is your question or comment? caller: we are talking about the book, "why congress." partisan politics, it seems to me it has been a bigger problem in the last half a dozen years, and it seems to continue. when i think about when we vote for in the senate and president, everybody gets to vote. you walk in, make a vote, you do not have to share who you voted for. i realize that congressmen and his senate representatives are elected by constituents who are supposed to represent the towns, cities, the states they come from. but what happens is you have hundreds of senators and member trying to get the same thing passed. it seems to get caught up in partisan politics. the other part i noticed is many times when a big bill comes up, 100% of republicans will vote one way and 100% of the democrats will vote another way

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