Vigorous debate is the cornerstone of any well functioning democracy. To facilitate more open and direct interaction between the House and Executive, a weekly forum to ask questions, debate policy, challenge misinformation and facilitate discussion should be created. This should take a form similar to UK Prime Minister Questions, with direct interaction between the President and House members, in a public, televised forum. We need such direct debate and interaction; the continuous back and forth in a relatively unstructured manner would make for great debate, and great television. In 2010, President Obama took part in a similar forum at the Republican policy retreat. We want more of that.



