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Political scientists Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution spoke about their book "The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track," Monday at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.

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