{"id":110,"date":"2024-05-31T13:46:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/new-york\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=110"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T13:46:50","slug":"making-government-work","status":"publish","type":"issue","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/new-york\/issues\/making-government-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Government Work"},"template":"","class_list":["post-110","issue","type-issue","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"short_title":"","summary":"Our government should make decisions that further the public's interest. But recently, gridlock, hyper-partisanship, and out-of-date legislative process have hindered meaningful progress. We are fighting back.","helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Common Cause addresses a range of Functioning Government issues to ensure that our government can do its job. Over the years, we have fought to: \\n\u00b7 Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster\\n\u00b7 Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas\\n\u00b7 Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative processs\\n\u00b7 Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Common Cause addresses a range of good government issues to ensure that public officials can their jobs. Over the years, we have worked to: <\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Common Cause addresses a range of Functioning Government issues to ensure that our government can do its job. Over the years, we have fought to: \\n\u00b7 Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster\\n\u00b7 Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas\\n\u00b7 Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative processs\\n\u00b7 Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Common Cause addresses a range of Functioning Government issues to ensure that our government can do its job. Over the years, we have fought to: \\n\u00b7 Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster\\n\u00b7 Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas\\n\u00b7 Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative processs\\n\u00b7 Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Common Cause addresses a range of Functioning Government issues to ensure that our government can do its job. Over the years, we have fought to: \\n\u00b7 Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster\\n\u00b7 Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas\\n\u00b7 Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative processs\\n\u00b7 Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative process<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Common Cause addresses a range of Functioning Government issues to ensure that our government can do its job. Over the years, we have fought to: \\n\u00b7 Reform the U.S. Senate to update its rules and curb abuse of the silent filibuster\\n\u00b7 Prevent government shutdowns over anti-democratic political agendas\\n\u00b7 Make sure voters have necessary information about budgets, spending, and the legislative processs\\n\u00b7 Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;}\">Stop legislators from wrongly interfering with presidential and gubernatorial appointments to the executive and judicial branch\r\n<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Ensure state legislatures have adequate time and funding to conduct the peoples' business<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_what_were_doing","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_what_were_doing":{"title":"","featured_work":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_take_action","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_take_action":{"heading":"","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"action":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_banner","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_banner":{"use_donate_banner":true,"title":"Title [highlight]with highlighting[\/highlight] and additional text.","button":null,"image":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_events","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_events":{"heading":"Events"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_resources","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_resources":{"heading":"Related Resources","button_text":"See all Related Resources","manually_curate":false,"resource":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_press","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_press":{"heading":"","button_text":"","manually_curate":false,"press":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_our_experts","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_our_experts":{"heading":"","manually_curate":false,"people":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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