FindLaw's Writ - Dean: The Broken Branch An Unusual Lawsuit Takes Congress to Task For Shoddy and Partisan Lawmaking, In Which A Bill Is Unconstitutionally Being Treated as Law: "Republicans promised reform in 1994, when they won control of the House for the first time in four decades. But rather than deliver it, GOP leadership has - according to Mann and Ornstein - undermined the institution through 'the demise of regular order, the decline of deliberation and the weakening of our system of checks and balances.'
Speaker Dennis Hastert is described in the pre-publication material, based on his own words, as more of 'a lieutenant of the president than a steward of the House.' Accordingly, Mann and Ornstein's book suggests, 'the legislative process has been bent to serve immediate presidential interests and have often resulted in poorly crafted and stealthily passed laws.'"
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