Walter Mondale on congressional disfunction--and how to fix it

Walter Mondale,
Former Vice President Walter Mondale, sitting in an MPR News studio just before a broadcast of "Midday" on Jan. 5, 2010, his 82nd birthday.
MPR Photo/Tom Weber

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