It’s a scenario that has played out repeatedly for decades in the Senate: A narrow majority, intent on getting its ...
PopVox Foundation, Proposed: The Congressional Capacity and Technology Office, February 2026. Congress has a reputation of being behind the times when ...
Nowadays people complain about the tedious pace of Senate business. The upper chamber empowers the minority party and even a ...
Jay Cost, What Does It Mean to be Madisonian? American Enterprise Institute, March 2026. The word "Madisonian" tends to refer to ...
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 ...
If Donald Trump had a motto, it might be: Have carrots ready but start with sticks. With Learning Resources v. Trump, ...
Congress sent a spending bill to President Donald Trump in February, providing $78.9 billion in funding to the Education Department. That is about ...
Virginia Democrats, in a rank partisan power-grab, just voted to replace the current fair and bipartisan congressional map with a naked gerrymander that ...
Five years ago today (February 13, 2021), 43 Senate Republicans voted to acquit Donald Trump of inciting the January 6 ...
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 ...
Is it too kind to give any cheers at all to Congress’ appropriators during the second government shutdown of this ...
Daniel Webster was one of the greatest orator-politicians in the history of the United States. A relentless defender of the ...
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 ...
What is the proper role of the judiciary in American political life? There has never been a clear answer to ...
Laura Dove, A Conservative Case for the Filibuster, American Enterprise Institute, January 20026. “A Conservative Case for the Filibuster” argues that ...
Congress returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, ...
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