New Legislative Body - Super Congress

[Rath]

HappySqurriel said:

Rath said:
What you really need is to strip one of the existing houses of most of it's powers - in most other countries it's the upper house (the Senate in your case) that's much weaker. That way you can't end up with such a deadlock between the two.

Deadlock is a feature not a bug ...

The government of the United States was designed with several checks and balances that tend  to result in deadlock when a party tries to do something without support.  It is only a really big problem now because politicians are so worried about how their statements or actions will be portrayed in a 24 hour news cycle.

Well you've got a very poisonous bi-partisian atmosphere. Neither party seems willing to compromise and with one in charge of each house it's possibily going to end up with the USA in a partial default, the feature isn't working.