Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VII: The Ambiguous Legacy of Andrew Jackson , American Enterprise Institute, May 2025. Unlike his predecessors, ...
The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself ...
If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we have ...
Caucuses, caucuses everywhere. Source: Rep. Ritchie Torres, X.com. House Republicans are battling over what should be included Donald Trump’s “one, big, ...
Everyone who follows American politics is going to spend a lot of time thinking about presidential and judicial power over ...
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 ...
The Constitution designates Congress as the lawmaking institution in our federal government. Yet, an enormous amount of lawmaking gets done ...
“Liberation Week” was quite the wild ride. On Thursday, April 2, President Donald Trump announced, in an executive order, that ...
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon ...
On April 14, 2025, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released this educational video. The Constitution designates Congress as the primary ...
Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice ...
Late in March, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives turned their energies to appliances. They passed two resolutions to strike down energy ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VI: Madison, Monroe, and the Republican Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, March 2025. Jay Cost reminds ...
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of ...
Congressional Research Service, The Reconciliation Process: Frequently Asked Questions, report R48444, Congressional Research Service, March 6. 2025. CRS The Reconciliation Process ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part V: Politics and Presidential Power Under Adams and Jefferson, 1797-1809, American Enterprise Institute, February ...
You cannot really understand the House of Representatives without some familiarity with its rules. They affect everything---who acts as leaders, ...
Phlilip Wallach The Woebegone 118th Congress 02-2025Download
James Capretta, Dysfunction in Federal Budgeting Structural Factors and Selected Reforms, American Enterprise Institute, January 2025. James Capretta Dysfunction in Federal ...
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