former congressman tom graves and brian baird gave insight now on ways to modernize congress. they spoke at an event hosted by the american enterprise institute. >>> welcome. i'm zachary coarser. co-director of the lab at clairmont college. my pleasure to welcome you all here today to a conversation about mod nation in congress. a follow-up discussion to october 16th where we had the opportunity to discuss congress's diminished role in the constitutional system. i'd like to thank you you for hosting this event. and george thomas for sponsoring and organizing this event as well. we're very fortunate to hold this because the timing is certainly right. we started talking about this in october. we had some rather, you know, broad discussions of article 1 powers and the kind of, you know, well-worn thesis about congress, how it had withdrawn from the separation of powers that had been dominated by the executive. and we began to discuss reform ideas. and we hadn't yet had the final report of a select committee on modernization suggesting reforms. and becertainly hadn't had the gener