Kevin R. Kosar

Senate appropriators reject House cuts to congressional funding for Capitol Hill operations
Senate appropriators reject House cuts to congressional funding for Capitol Hill operations

Before leaving Washington for the August recess, the Senate advanced the annual legislative branch spending bill. The measure proposes $4.97 billion in spending on ...

August 22, 2025
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Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the past
Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the past

Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the ...

August 14, 2025
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Bipartisan Policy Center, Legislating After Loper: Practical Solutions for a Post-Chevron Congress
Bipartisan Policy Center, Legislating After Loper: Practical Solutions for a Post-Chevron Congress

Bipartisan Policy Center, Legislating After Loper, March 2025. In March 2025, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Working Group on Congress, Courts, and ...

August 11, 2025
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Reports of The Princeton Initiative on Restoring the Constitutional Powers of Congress
Reports of The Princeton Initiative on Restoring the Constitutional Powers of Congress

Mickey Edward, ed., Reports of The Princeton Initiative on Restoring the Constitutional Powers of Congress, Princeton School of Public and ...

August 3, 2025
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Congress passes spending cuts — but the small savings may make for bigger budgeting troubles
Congress passes spending cuts — but the small savings may make for bigger budgeting troubles

Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of ...

July 26, 2025
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Congress tries to ban insider trading by its members
Congress tries to ban insider trading by its members

Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single ...

July 7, 2025
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Trump and Congress clash over who has final say on the Library of Congress
Trump and Congress clash over who has final say on the Library of Congress

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...

June 6, 2025
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Who Is in Charge of the Library of Congress?
Who Is in Charge of the Library of Congress?

The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself ...

May 22, 2025
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House GOP shuts down Democrats’ oversight of Trump
House GOP shuts down Democrats’ oversight of Trump

House Republicans recently sank numerous Democratic efforts to investigate President Donald Trump’s administration, but anyone who is not a close watcher of Congress would ...

May 12, 2025
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Congress and regulation: How to bolster legislative oversight capacity
Congress and regulation: How to bolster legislative oversight capacity

The Constitution designates Congress as the lawmaking institution in our federal government. Yet, an enormous amount of lawmaking gets done ...

May 6, 2025
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Video: Congress: Legislation vs. Regulation 
Video: Congress: Legislation vs. Regulation 

On April 14, 2025, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released this educational video. The Constitution designates Congress as the primary ...

April 18, 2025
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Can Congress Keep Up with President Trump?
Can Congress Keep Up with President Trump?

Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice ...

April 14, 2025
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Congressional republicans aim to nix Biden regulations. But enduring regulatory reform requires a new law
Congressional republicans aim to nix Biden regulations. But enduring regulatory reform requires a new law

Late in March, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives turned their energies to appliances. They passed two resolutions to strike down energy ...

April 11, 2025
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Lawmakers Try to Stop the Hundreds of Billions in Fraudulent and Improper Spending
Lawmakers Try to Stop the Hundreds of Billions in Fraudulent and Improper Spending

Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of ...

March 21, 2025
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The Reconciliation Process: Frequently Asked Questions
The Reconciliation Process: Frequently Asked Questions

Congressional Research Service, The Reconciliation Process: Frequently Asked Questions, report R48444, Congressional Research Service, March 6. 2025. CRS The Reconciliation Process ...

March 10, 2025
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Where can I find the rules of the House of Representatives?
Where can I find the rules of the House of Representatives?

You cannot really understand the House of Representatives without some familiarity with its rules. They affect everything---who acts as leaders, ...

February 7, 2025
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House Leadership Structure: Overview of Party Organization
House Leadership Structure: Overview of Party Organization

Congressional Research Service, House Leadership Structure: Overview of Party Organization, Congressional Research Service, report RS20930, July 10, 2003. Congressional Research Service ...

February 2, 2025
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Executive Actions Will Only Take Trump So Far
Executive Actions Will Only Take Trump So Far

Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) recently took to X.com to celebrate the Immigration and Customs Officials arrests of more than ...

January 31, 2025
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The Federal Budget: Serious Issues and Unserious Politics
The Federal Budget: Serious Issues and Unserious Politics

Annual deficits make for growing deficits. Source: Wikipedia. There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let ...

January 10, 2025
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Event: The Woebegone 118th Congress—and What to Expect for the 119th
Event: The Woebegone 118th Congress—and What to Expect for the 119th

Source: Philip Wallach. The 118th Congress was historically unproductive. In some ways, though, it was one for the history books, featuring ...

January 8, 2025
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