Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, now Director of the Center on Congress at Indiana University, has strong feelings about how far we have diverged from that process. We spoke to him via Skype. Hamilton also is a big fan of good journalism, though he laments how few journalists really understand the massive and complex federal budget.

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