County, Opinion

A Look at the Nation: Even those who know Congress best are shaking their heads

RBC I I had the good fortune last week to spend some time in Washington, D.C. with about a dozen former members of Congress. As you’d expect, we got to talking about the current Congress. Very quickly it turned out that the same question was troubling all of us: Why is it held in such low public esteem?

We represented both parties and a variety of eras and had a range of experience under our…