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Barber Conable —
American
Politician
born on November 02, 1922,
died on November 30, 2003
Barber Benjamin Conable, Jr. was a U.S. Congressman from New York and president of the World Bank... (wikipedia)
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.