79. Ben Nelson on the Death of the Senate and the Path to Functional Governing

Ben Nelson, former Nebraska governor and United States Senator,
is in conversation with Tom Knoblauch about his new book is Death
of the Senate: My Front Row Seat to the Demise of the World’s
Greatest Deliberative Body. In the book, Nelson chronicles his
two terms in the Senate and what he sees as a demise of the
concept of collaboration and bipartisanship, leaving gridlock and
a war for power in their place. He outlines how we got here and
his steps for returning congress to a functional, democratic
space.