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Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein, author of "The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track." Ornstein is a political analyst and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Norman Ornstein
Norman Ornstein, author of "The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track." Ornstein is a political analyst and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute