I know this article is satire but there is a lot of truth behind it. A previous company I worked for had daily meetings for two hours (sometimes three). The managers would talk and talk and then finally decide to meet again the next day.
No one would actually make a decision except to meet again. It was a total waste of time but the CEO didn’t seem to care. I would just shrug my shoulders and go through the motions.
I’m sure the federal and state governments are the same way.
Notice our posts that were made within a second or two of each other. We may have been in some of the same meetings. LOL.
Legislatures are nothing meetings of meetings with all real decision making delegated to the lifer apparatchiks of the executive agencies.