The structure of the Congress
When the framers formed a bicameral legislature, they shaped a structure of checks and balances inside Congress by necessitating a bill to be approved in both chambers. The functions, authorities, and structures of the Senate and the House of Representatives are different, and these variations can upset the policymaking procedure: for instance, by hastening it or decelerating it down, and by the scope to which bipartite partnership is or is not facilitated (Keller, 2019).
Congress’s structure slows down its obligation to make decisions on broad national matters compared to narrower group-centered issues. General national issues policymaking intensely upsurges the time taken to sanction significant legislation. These legislative delays are much more prominent when the national issues involve two ideologically polarized parties, such as the democrats and Republicans in the US. In such cases, one of the parties may control one or both chambers of Congress, making it difficult to quickly solve the national issue. In contrast to small group centered issues, national issues frequently take a much extended period to advance through the legislative procedure, and it challenges the administration’s aptitude to swiftly tackle significant policy to widespread problems compared to narrower group centered issues. National issues have a high level of party separation, which worsens the complications of separated Congress, decelerating the legislative progression by a substantial amount (Doerfler, 2016).
References
Doerfler, R. D. (2016). Who Cares How Congress Works. Duke LJ, 66, 979.
Keller, W. W. (2019). Institutional Structures and Technology Policy in Congress: Toward an Applied Policy Science. In Science, Technology, And Politics (pp. 31-40). Routledge.