The quote is referring to the 19th amendment being passed which gave women the right to vote
WW1 was the first war to abandon the line styles of "Noble Fighting" found in contemporary Europe. In the old style soldiers walked in line and proceed to shoot each other till the other fled or simply all died. In the horrific new war trenches were dug and six machine gunners could hold off and assault of thousands of contemporary linemen. Doing so led to the horror of trench war which was bloody much more violent and dark.
I can infer people in the congress can be corrupt and don't do their jobs properly, and are cheating the system treating society poorly.
CREEP was what everyone called Nixon's 1972 fundraising committee, despite their futile efforts to make us act like grown-ups and use its official acronym, CRP, or simply, “the Committee to Re-Elect.”
When the Framers created a bicameral legislature, they created a system of checks and balances within Congress by requiring a bill to be passed in both chambers.
The structures, powers, and functions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are different, and these differences can affect the policymaking process: for example, by accelerating it or slowing it down, and by the extent to which bipartisan collaboration is or is not facilitated.