by Karl Kurtz
Lee Hamilton, the former congressman who directs the Center on Congress at Indiana University, writes a thoughtful column on how Compromise Keeps Our System Running. Hamilton reflects on his reading of historian Robert Remini's recently published The House: The History of the House of Representatives. He contrasts Remini's view that compromise has been essential to legislating in Congress with that of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay who argued in his farewell speech to Congress that "true statesmen...are not defined by what they compromise, but what they don't."
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