Responding to three-cheers-for-partisanship column , Daniel Freedman writes :

One way to ensure more partisanship on Capital Hill is perhaps to rebuild Congress. It has been said that the horseshoe shape of the debating chambers in Congress breed consensus politics, while in the British Parliament, where members face off against each other, adversarial politics is encouraged. As Winston Churchill famously said: We shape our buildings-therafter they shape us.