Solve American Gridlock

AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, April 17, 2024 /EINPesswire.com/ -- Publisher Solve American Gridlock, LLC of Austin, Texas. Combative Congress, Your Power! Your Voice! is now on Amazon https://a.co/d/jj0KUOc . This book investigates the root causes of Congress’s difficulty in working in an efficacious way to solve the challenging problems facing the United States.

Combative Congress takes the position that care must be taken in complex matters to identify the problem accurately followed by exposing its root causes. By taking this approach, the common mistake of trying to solve a symptom rather than the root cause is avoided.

The book concludes with three root causes: closed party primaries, single-member (safe) districts for the House of Representatives, and non-proportional voting methods. It suggests the improvements needed.

These impediments are shown to be the primary reasons why it is extremely difficult for new parties to form and prosper. They are diagnosed to be electoral methods embedded into state and federal laws and party rules. The book argues that an important one is the mandate written into federal law in 1967 requiring every state to have single-member districts for the House of Representatives; this law has led to aggressive gerrymandering and thereby safe districts that return over 80% of Representatives back to Congress every two years.

This book analyzes why Congress has only two parties and proposes needed changes in our electoral systems that will open competition to more parties and a much more civil and productive Congress. Other important countries have an average of 3.9 parties.

Combative Congress addresses a serious and complex topic in ways that make reading it pleasant. This nonpartisan book is unique in that its appeal stretches from a high school student to a professor, from a young housewife to a retired chemical engineer, and more. It was written to be concise and readable in less than three hours with some humor; it has 33 color graphs and photographs to implant images of concepts in the reader’s mind; and it has short chapters and good references.

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Congressional Commission
Blueprint for Attainable Control of U.S. Greenhouse Gases

This paper advocates creating an independent Congressional Commission of experts in climate science, economics, and other necessary fields to craft a U.S. Blueprint based on emissions pricing to gain control over its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It includes brief background reviews of several topics one must grasp in order to see the necessity for a Commission.

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Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock

Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the U.S. House and Senate, not any other offices.

Professor Edward “Ned” Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University and heads its election law program. He was interviewed by Kevin Kosar of the American Enterprise Institute for an April 11, 2022 article.

Mr. Foley advocates that Congress require by law that U.S. Senators and Congresspersons be elected by majority vote – over 50%. Congress has this authority. The constitution deals with Congress in Article I whose Section 4, after saying that the state legislatures can regulate the holding of elections, says “…but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations…”

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