The technology that runs Congress lags so far behind the modern world that its flag-tracking system just caught up to 2017-era Pizza Hut

Photo: United States Capitol. Photo credit: Architect of the Capitol via Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Lorelei Kelly. The Conversation – January 24, 2025.

On a typical day, you can’t turn on the news without hearing someone say that Congress is broken. The implication is that this dereliction explains why the institution is inert and unresponsive to the American people. There’s one element often missing from that discussion: Congress is confounding in large part because its members can’t hear the […]

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