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Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
--
Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 2, p. 69 (1981).

 

(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson

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