Congress has a job — but has largely stopped doing it, according to Washington Post and ProPublica analysis

For more than 200 years, Congress operated largely as the country’s founders envisioned — forging compromises on the biggest issues of the day while asserting its authority to declare war, spend taxpayer money and keep the presidency in check.Today, on the eve of a closely fought election that will determine who runs Capitol Hill, that model is effectively dead.It has been replaced by a weakened legislative branch in which debate is strictly curtailed, party leaders dictate the agend