POLITICS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump, his legislative agenda largely stalled more than 100 days in office, is lamenting the ‘archaic’ rules of Congress.
When defending why he wasn’t as productive as he promised his supporters he would be during his first 100 days, he told Fox News on Friday [4-28-17] that the process of getting things done in Congress is ‘a very rough system. It’s an archaic system … It’s really a bad thing for the country.’…
‘Well, I think things generally tend to go a little bit slower than you’d like them to go,’ he said on ‘Face the Nation.’ ‘It’s just a very, very bureaucratic system. I think the rules in Congress and, in particular, the rules in the Senate, are unbelievably archaic and slow-moving.’
He also blamed Democrats for trying to block him from furthering his agenda. Republicans control both houses of Congress, but Democrats are able to filibuster legislation in the Senate, a tactic they used to slow the nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.”
-Daniella Diaz, “Trump laments ‘archaic’ rules of Congress,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 1, 2017 11:55am