What Voters say

Three Tests. One Consistent Message

Since launching Make Congress Work Again, we have tested our proposal in three different ways:

A national survey of registered independent voters.
A 45-day social-media campaign asking people to publicly endorse the effort.
A survey of registered Ohio voters after they were shown the details of our proposal.

The methods were different. The results point in the same direction:

Americans are concerned about congressional gridlock—and substantial numbers support a bipartisan process that requires Congress to address major national problems and vote on them.

National Survey

1,133 Registered Independent Voters February 2026 | Margin of Error ±3%

We began by asking registered independent voters what they thought about the way Congress operates and whether they would support a different approach.

The survey found:

87% Congress has become too polarized to function effectively.

81%Agreed that bipartisan cooperation produces better results.

77% Supported using bipartisan commissions to address major national problems.

73% Said they would be more likely to support candidates who backed such commissions.

The national survey told us that frustration with congressional gridlock was widespread among independent voters—and that voters were receptive to a structured bipartisan alternative. But a survey measures what people say. We wanted to know whether people would actually take action.

45-Day Social-Media Campaign

Would People Put Their Names Behind the Idea?

During July and August 2026, Make Congress Work Again conducted a 45-day Facebook and Instagram campaign. The principal goal was not simply to generate clicks, “likes” or impressions. We asked people to go to our website and take an additional step: provide their name, email address and ZIP code and endorse the effort to Make Congress Work Again.

By the end of the campaign:

Nearly 1,400 people voluntarily provided their names, email addresses and ZIP codes to support the effort.

The Make Congress Work Again campaign also generated substantial engagement:

10,000 page engagements,
4,394 interactions,
3,287 post reactions,
749 shares and
4,225 link clicks.

The campaign gave us something the national survey could not: evidence that people were willing to move beyond expressing an opinion and publicly associate themselves with the effort.

Ohio Senate-Race Survey

400 Registered Ohio Voters
September 2026

Rather than asking whether they favored “bipartisanship” in the abstract, we showed respondents the substance of the proposal.

At the beginning of a two-year session, Congress would select one—or at most two—of the major issues listed in the enabling legislation.
Congress would then create a 16-member bipartisan commission to develop legislation:
- 8 Members of Congress (four from each party)
- 8 outside experts chosen on a bipartisan basis.
The commission would be given ten months to develop a legislative proposal.
At least three public hearings would be required.
Any legislation approved by the commission would require at least minimal bipartisan support of congressional members on the commission.
All members of Congress could then offer amendments to the commission.
Once proposed legislation finalized by the commission, the legislation could not be introduced in either house without at least minimal bipartisan sponsorship.
Congress would then debate the legislation but no further amendments permitted.
Procedural off ramps in both houses—including the Senate’s filibuster rule—would be suspended.
Congress would then be required to vote.

Bipartisan Approach

Then we asked what they thought.

61.52%

Strongly or somewhat supported the proposal. Only 13.48% strongly or somewhat opposed it.

42.89%

When asked whether a Senate candidate’s support for the proposal would affect their vote, said it would make them more likely to vote for that candidate. Only 6.87% said it would make them less likely.

37%

37% More likely to vote for the candidate who supports It, while 14% less likely.

58.82%

Chose the bipartisan process with a guaranteed final up-or-down vote over regular order.

Three Different Measures: A Consistent Result

The national survey measured attitudes among registered independent voters.
The social-media campaign tested whether people would take the additional step of publicly endorsing the effort.
The Ohio survey tested the actual proposal among registered voters of different political affiliations after respondents were shown how the process would work.

None of these results means Americans agree on what Congress should do about immigration, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, health care, fiscal policy, election reform, or artificial intelligence. That isn’t the point.

Our proposal does not ask Americans—or their elected representatives—to stop disagreeing. It asks Congress to create a bipartisan process for confronting a limited number of major national problems, considering competing solutions, and ultimately doing what Congress was elected to do.

Congress was elected to solve problems. It should be required to vote on them.

DEBATE. DECIDE. VOTE.

Congress was elected to solve problems.

It should be required to vote on them.