Comprehensive Congressional Budget Act (one-pager, blog, essay) Why: Strengthen legislative branch with deeper knowledge, empowerment and purpose, regular collaboration, and clear institutional positions. Improve fiscal responsibility through context-rich, holistic budgeting within reasonable guardrails. Greater democracy within Congress from empowering members in committees and on the floor to pursue bipartisan, ad hoc issue coalitions, shifting away from the bipolar, partisan culture. How: ...