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The United States Senate is offered referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body. Over 1700 men and women have served as U.S. senators.
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) said it best when he described the role of the Congress in relationship to the Executive Branch:
A policy without checks and balances is a policy that too often loses its way...Our representative form of democracy depends upon power divided and power shared. The tension between the Congress and the Executive was meant to be. It need not be destructive. It is, in the best sense, a healthy and creative tension inherent in our democratic process.
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