congresses

You'd have to resort to terrible Library of Congresses or Volkswagen full of core memory analogies.

So your premise is that once a law becomes signed, all future Congresses either must support it financially or repeal it?

Its complexity has increased since then as subsequent Congresses have tinkered with the tax code.

Since 2001- 14 years- we've had both congresses and presidencies that supported and renewed this piece of legislation.

Get rid of Congresses ability to regulate every detail of the economy and K Street will have a lot less to lobby for.

The United States have been around for centuries, and each elected governments and congresses have their own idea about how the tax code should look like.

Buying five Congresses would cost five times as much.

The executive taking corrective action is worse than the congress doing so, but it's the congresses fault for failing to do their jobs not any sort of power grab.

It still resulted in one of the most useless Congresses in history, a pointless budget deadlock that damaged the US credit rating, increased powers of federal surveillance, continued insane drug policy...

And the risk of a Black Swan has only been going up given the past 3 decades of irresponsible governance (under congresses and presidents from both parties.) Don't look to VCs for economic perspective.

And for this, they've hijacked the criminal justice system with bribes to congresses and parliaments, extended copyright protection so much that it now lasts a duration best measured in centuries, bankrupted innocent people with million dollar judgements, and sent people to prison for what shouldn't even be misdemeanors.

The US has developed what I see as a dangerous and wrong-headed distaste for legislative deliberation, what with Congresses being labeled "do nothing" and frequent complaints of gridlock, as if those are bad things.

"any Congress other than the 113th" You might want to read up on past Congresses since the 113th is actually pretty tame compared to quite a few of the others.

You can find out more about these efforts by searching for the Department of States "war of ideas" or congresses "Jihad 2.0", or generally doing due diligence and reading legislation and strategy documents.

However, taking intent of the peace prize in mind -- " during the preceding year [...] shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

You mean the federal government which has passed the least number of laws of all previous' Congresses?

The republicans controlled both the presidency, Congress, and some would argue also the Supreme Court, during the 108th and 109th Congresses.

The drafts will be secret for everyone not involved directly in the negotiations until it'll have to be passed in the national Congresses.