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DESCRIPTION:“The State of Congress: Looking Toward the Midterms"Sarah Binde
 r is a professor of political science at George Washington University and 
 a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution\, specializing in Congress an
 d legislative politics.She co-authored a book with Mark Spindel\, "The Myt
 h of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve" (2017)\, whic
 h was&nbsp\;awarded the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book publi
 shed in legislative politics in 2017 and the Gladys Kammerer Award for the
  best book published in 2017 on U.S. national policy.&nbsp\; Her work has 
 appeared in the American Political Science Review\, Perspectives on Politi
 cs\, and the American Journal of Political Science.Binder is also a politi
 cal science editor at The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.This lecture 
 is generously funded by the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman Fund.
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SUMMARY:State of Democracy Lecture on The State of Congress: Looking Toward
  the Midterms
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p align="center"><strong>“The State of Congre
 ss: Looking Toward the Midterms"</strong></p><p><strong></strong><strong><
 /strong><strong>Sarah Binder i</strong>s a professor of political science 
 at George Washington University and a senior fellow at The Brookings Insti
 tution\, specializing in Congress and legislative politics.</p><p>She co-a
 uthored a book with Mark Spindel\, "The Myth of Independence: How Congress
  Governs the Federal Reserve"<em> </em>(2017)\, which was&nbsp\;<em></em>a
 warded the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book published in legis
 lative politics in 2017 and the Gladys Kammerer Award for the best book pu
 blished in 2017 on U.S. national policy.&nbsp\; Her work has appeared in t
 he American Political Science Review\, Perspectives on Politics\, and the 
 American Journal of Political Science.<em></em></p><p>Binder is also a pol
 itical science editor at The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.</p><p><em
 >This lecture is generously funded by the Norman M. and Marsha Lee Berkman
  Fund.</em></p>
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