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In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an experts account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senates lost luster;While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an experts account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senates lost luster. Shapiro places the Senate at ground zero for Americas political dysfunction--the institution that has failed the longest and the worst. Because the Senate, at its best, represented the special place where the Democrats and Republicans worked together to transcend ideological and regional differences and find common ground, its decline has intensified the nations polarization, by institutionalizing it at the highest level. Shapiro documents this decline and evaluates the prospects of restoration that could provide a way out of the polarized morass that has engulfed Congress. With a narrative that runs right through the first year of the Trump presidency, Broken will be essential reading for all concerned about the state of American politics and the future of our country.--Amazon.com

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Broken

Broken

Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?

Ira Shapiro

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

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To my children, Susanna and Brian, and my grandchildren, Zev and Jacob:

our hope for the future.

The Senate, the great anchor of the government... Such an institution may be some times necessary as a defense to the people against their own temporary errors and delusions.

James Madison letter to Thomas Jefferson; Federal Papers #63 (1787)

The American Senate, in my opinion, was the premier spark of brilliance that emerged from the collective intellect of the Constitutions framers.

Senator Robert C. Byrd (1988)

One thing I never heard in my time overseas is I wish we had a Senate like yours.

James Fallows (2010)

Acknowledgments

I t is clich to observe that writing a book is a lonely endeavor. Fortunately, I benefited greatly, as Im sure most authors do, from the encouragement and support of friends and family. I am particularly grateful for the astute comments and suggestions from friends who are terrific students of politics and policy, representing various stages of my life: Brandeis University: Walt and Edie Mossberg, Larry Joseph, and Alan Ehrenhalt; the Senate: Margaret and Al Crenshaw, Brian Conboy, and Ken Ackerman; the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR): Jennifer Haverkamp and Vanessa Sciarra; and, more recent friends, who epitomize the talent of the next generation: Joseph Marks, Marta McClellan Ross, and Joe Frederici.

Special thanks go to my administrative assistant, Carmela Lupica (Lena) for her help in all aspects of the book, including research, editing, and production. It greatly helped that Lena was on the Hill almost as long ago as I was, so she found working on the book to be quite absorbing, even when I was somewhat less organized than would have been optimal.

I owe a great debt of gratitude to Jonathan Sisk, vice president and senior acquisitions editor for American government, public policy, and American history, at Rowman & Littlefield. Jon encouraged me to write the book, persuaded Rowman & Littlefield to publish it, and to bring out an updated edition of The Last Great Senate all of which make Jon quite indispensable to this project. Kate Powers, assistant acquisitions editor, has been a constant source of support and help in bringing the book to completion.

In this venture, as in everything in my life for the past half century, my wife, Nancy, was my greatest supporter and my best adviser. Love you!

Introduction

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift.

Bob Dylan, Forever Young

O n June 25, 2017, as the turbulent Trump presidency passed the five-month mark, the Sunday morning talk shows featured no fewer than ten U.S. senators discussing the presidents firing of FBI director James Comey, its impact on the investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign, and the increasingly heated debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act. It was one of those days that remind us of the central role that senators play in our national political conversation and in the workingor failingof our political system. It was a day when many other Americans shared my interest in, if not my obsession with, the Senate.

I confess to a love of the Senate that goes back more than fifty years. I recall the thrilling summer of 1964 when Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen led the Senate in breaking the southern filibuster to pass the Civil Rights Act; in 1966, J. William Fulbright, wearing sunglasses to shield his eyes for the television lights, convening the hearings that exposed the folly of the escalation of the Vietnam War; in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy stepped forward to prevent President Lyndon Johnson from seeking another term; and in 1973, being part of nation riveted as Sam Ervin and Howard Baker led their select committee in exposing the abuses of power that would become known as Watergate. Long before Lin-Manuel Mirandas Hamilton , the Senate was the room where it happened.

Like Hamilton and Burr in their era, and so many other young people in the crisis times of the 1960s and 1970s, I wanted to be in the room where it happened. I got a job as a summer intern for Jacob Javits, the great senator from New York, and started working in the Senate one day after my graduation from college in 1969. Enthralled by the experience that summerRichard Nixons first year as presidentI focused on coming back to the Senate full time after law school. Gaylord Nelson, the visionary environmentalist from Wisconsin who founded Earth Day, gave me that opportunity, hiring me as his legislative legal counsel.

The Senate I joined in October 1975 had just completed what was probably the most extraordinary decade in its history. In the fall of 1963, the Senate had been virtually paralyzed, hopelessly divided over President Kennedys civil rights legislation, and seemingly unable to make progress on virtually any domestic issues. But with the assassination of Kennedy and the determination of President Lyndon Johnson, the Senate broke the southern filibuster, making possible the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the greatest legislative accomplishment in our history. The Senate went on from there to play a key role in the range of Great Society legislation, which still forms the foundation of much of American life. After its unwise acquiescence in the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which Johnson misused as a license to widen Americas involvement in Vietnam, the Senate became the forum for debating and ultimately stopping the war.

In 1973, the Watergate Committee worked, in tandem with the press, the courts, and the special prosecutor, to hold Richard Nixon and his administration accountable for their crimes and their cover-up. In 1975, the Senate empowered a select committee, chaired by Frank Church, to investigate the abuses of the intelligence community. Reacting to the imperial presidency of Johnson and Nixon, the Senate (and the House) reasserted congressional prerogatives, giving themselves powerful new instrumentsthe Budget Act and the War Powers Actfor checking the Executive.

In short, the Senate was in the forefront of every major issue during a decade of crisis in our country. Dealing with civil rights, war and peace, presidential power, and Supreme Court nominations, the Senate seemed to have a special relationship to the Constitution. It occupied a unique role in our country, just as the Founders had intended.

The magnetic pull that the Senate exerted on me was not unique. During this period, the Senate was the place to be, where a young man or woman could come to Washington, hitch their star to a major national figure, make a mark at an early age, and derive priceless experience in politics and government. It was no accident that the staff of the Senate and senators of this era included young men and women who would be future senators and congressional leaders: George Mitchell, Tom Daschle, Lamar Alexander, Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins, Tom Foley, Fred Thompson, Jane Harman, Norm Dicks, Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Chris Van Hollen, Ted Kaufman, Angus King; future press and media luminaries: Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Mark Shields, Lawrence ODonnell, George Will, Jeff Greenfield, Colby King, Steven Pearlstein; future White House chiefs of staff: Leon Panetta, John Podesta, Ken Duberstein, Josh Bolten; a future Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright; two future Supreme Court justices, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan; and a future president, Bill Clinton. They trained in the right place. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote about those who had been young during the Civil War: In our youth, to our great good fortune, our hearts were touched with fire.

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