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 ...
By Kevin R. Kosar and John Guida Mr. Kosar is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Guida is ...
Congress sent a spending bill to President Donald Trump in February, providing $78.9 billion in funding to the Education Department. That is about ...
Kevin Kosar, author of the essay, "What's wrong with Congress?" recently spoke with Richard Morrison of the Competitive Enterprise Institute ...
President Donald Trump recently signed $174.7 billion spending legislation. The White House said little upon signing the Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior ...
President Donald Trump’s first year of his second, nonconsecutive term brought all sorts of changes. His administration shuttered the United States Agency ...
The 119th Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol recently. They have an immense amount of work to get done, policy ...
Congress returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, ...
A poll in Des Mines, Iowa, November 2022. Source: Wikimedia Commons, Phil Roeder. Few would seriously argue that Congress today is ...
The House has spent much of the last two months of this year trying to catch up on its work. It passed 22 ...
Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and ...
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) hands the Speaker's gavel to Mike Johnson (R-LA) on October 25, 2023. Source: C-SPAN. By Max ...
Worries about Congress’s capacity to carry out its constitutional duties are not new. In 1965, leaders of the American Enterprise ...
The U.S government’s debt hit $37.6 trillion on Sept. 30, the end of the most recent fiscal year. To put ...
Source: USAFacts.org The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires Congress to pass twelve appropriations bills before the September ...
Kathy Goldschmidt, State of the Congress 2024: An Assessment of the Civility, Functionality, and Capacity of the 118th Congress by ...
President Donald Trump recently moved to cancel $4.9 billion in spending on foreign aid, the latest skirmish in the battle for control ...
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 ...
Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the ...
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