Every year, Congress faces a massive challenge: how to divide up roughly $1.5 trillion in discretionary federal spending across thousands ...
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 ...
It is an honor to respond to my colleague Philip Wallach’s comprehensive and depressingly persuasive overview of the self-inflicted irrelevance of Congress. ...
Soren Dayton and Josiah Watney, Making the Rules of the House: How factional politics overcame the Rules Committee in the ...
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the parties are playing hardball. Texas Republicans have convened a special session of their ...
Bipartisan Policy Center, Legislating After Loper, March 2025. In March 2025, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Working Group on Congress, Courts, and ...
The Republican-controlled Congress recently passed a $9 billion rescission law, canceling a significant chunk of foreign aid spending and about $1 ...
I began my career in the Senate chamber as a page, the junior-most staff member in the body. From the ...
On February 7, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado offered the following advice on X: “Dear Speaker Johnson, Simply pass every executive order ...
Mickey Edward, ed., Reports of The Princeton Initiative on Restoring the Constitutional Powers of Congress, Princeton School of Public and ...
Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of ...
The House of Representatives recessed on Wednesday this week. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) made this move to head off a ...
Donald J. Trump, signing ceremony for the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, July 4, 2025. Source: White House Instagram. On ...
In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It ...
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 ...
As a constitutional matter, was President Trump required to have congressional authorization before he militarily struck Iran’s nuclear facilities? The ...
President Donald Trump's recent authorization of the use of “bunker-buster” bombs against Iranian nuclear facilities has touched off a debate ...
Congress continues to debate the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda for his ...
Clash of the titans. Source: Google Gemini. On May 28, Elon Musk, de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency ...
Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...
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