General W.W. Belknap, Secretary of War, Appearing before the Committee on Expenditures, 1876. Source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in the ...
There’s no shortage of vital issues facing our country at the moment: rising gas prices, the ongoing war in Iran, ...
President Donald Trump recently snipped $810 million in federal spending. The late September cuts would come to spending authorized mostly ...
https://www.youtube.com/live/zRoBrK5eIRg?si=BwrlG2pBnSB6H-M_&t=420 On September 23, AEI’s Kevin R. Kosar was joined by Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute’s Scott Warren, Syracuse University’s Richard ...
Congress performs poorly by most measures, and a mere 15 percent of the public approves of our national legislature’s performance. ...
On a sunny Tuesday morning 25 years ago, Congress reconvened. Speaker Dennis Hastert called the House of Representatives to order, and the Illinois Republican recognized Rep. Earl ...
Abstract Americans’ dissatisfaction with Congress is long-standing; its public approval rating has hovered between 10 and 30 percent for the last ...
Capitol Hill is very balmy and very quiet. The thrum of legislators jawboning while a vote is being tallied has been ...
Over the past 15 years or so, the practice of gerrymandering has moved from the sidelines of contemporary political discussions ...
Might Senator John Fetterman (PA) leave the Democratic Party? That question has been much discussed since Politico’s Jonathan Martin raised ...
The news coming from Capitol Hill over the past couple of weeks has left much to be desired. Congress has had difficulty ...
Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz recently declared, “There is zero doubt tonight that Donald Trump is in complete and total control of the ...
Lorelei Kelly, The First Amendment Promise of Deliberative Technology, Toda Peace Institute, March 2026. Congress ---and members’ and senators’ offices particularly--- ...
The House of Representatives is poised to provide $4 million in new spending to modernize the chamber’s internal operations. The chamber’s ...
Unite, Research Brief: Primary Voters Elect Most of Congress. They're Not Like Most Americans, January 2026. More than a century ago ...
Congress has a lot on its plate this year. Legislators have to bargain out all 12 funding bills before fiscal 2026 ends ...
James Wallner and Soren Dayton, Rebuilding Congress from Within: How Factions Facilitate Deliberation and Lawmaking, Foundation for American Innovation, January ...
PopVox Foundation, Proposed: The Congressional Capacity and Technology Office, February 2026. Congress has a reputation of being behind the times when ...
Americans are owed $39.2 billion by the federal government, according to a Treasury Department tabulation. These funds are in the form of ...
Our national legislature is a vehicle for self-governance and forging unum from e pluribus. Congress is a frustrating and sometimes ridiculous ...
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