(CNN)With the
passage of the CHIPS Act to boost US production of semiconductors and
the announcement of a deal among Senate Democrats on a bill addressing climate change, health care and taxes, President Joe Biden is on the verge of a huge political victory. These bills offer the much-desired combination of major policy changes that also bring political benefit to the White House.
After four years of chaos under Trump, as well as ongoing gridlock and dysfunction on Capitol Hill that left issue after issue unaddressed, there was clearly a yearning in the electorate for a sense of normality -- a return to the era when many career politicians devoted every day to diving into the legislative process to find incremental solutions to the big problems that we faced. Biden brought to the White House the kind of deep political experience that we have not seen since the mid-1970s -- except for President George H.W. Bush.
