Can Congress be fixed? A Firing Line forum with Philip Wallach and Oona Hathaway

Podcast: Firing Line with Margaret Hoover · Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

Opublikowano: 2026-04-11

As presidents increasingly rely on executive action to advance their agenda, Philip Wallach and Oona Hathaway join Margaret Hoover to discuss why Congress has abdicated its constitutional power and how to fix it in a forum at Hofstra University. Wallach, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Why Congress,” talks about the role the founders envisioned for the legislative branch and how it has changed in recent decades amid rising partisanship and political dysfunction. Hathaway, a Yale Law School professor who served on a Princeton University panel examining congressional reform, assesses how...