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Government Gridlock: Are We More Divided Than in the Past?

Clip: 8/19/2013 | 9m 29s

Government Gridlock Then and Now: Are We More Divided Than in the Past?

Polls regularly find that Americans are unhappy with what's being done (or not done) in Washington. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Beverly Gage of Yale University, former Senate historian Richard Baker and Richard Norton Smith of George Mason University to get some historical perspective on shifts in America's political parties.

08/19/2013 | Rating NR

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