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  • John Dingell calls for Senate to be abolished

    12/04/2018 7:50:34 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 85 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/04/18 | Chris Mills Rodrigo
    Former Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) penned an op-ed Tuesday calling for the Senate to be abolished and for elections to be publicly funded. Dingell, who represented Michigan in the House for over 59 years, wrote for the Atlantic a series of suggestions to address the "unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself." The former lawmaker noted that in 1958 a survey from the University of Michigan found that 73 percent of Americans trusted the federal government “to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.” In 2017, the same study conducted by the Pew Research...