Congress cannot prevent any future Congress from acting.
"You're leaving it up to chance whether or not a future Congress wants immigration reform".
That deduction, however, would disappear after 2006 if a future Congress did not extend it.
A future Congress controlled by the Democrats would doubtless do much more.
Doubtless, some future President or future Congress will try to piece back together what is now being dismantled.
In the future, Congress could, through antitrust and commerce legislation, promote a more just landscape in college and professional sports.
A future Congress could study that area's oil and gas potential and then, if it wished, authorize drilling.
It is true that members of the current Congress cannot bind the actions of a future Congress.
Mr Brooks worries this means a future Congress, lacking political courage, will kill it altogether.Here's the thing.
Filibusters of ordinary legislation are slightly less indefensible, because a law can always be repealed by a future Congress.
A future Congress could well end up trimming the Medicaid cuts, delaying them further, or even repealing them.
