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 ...
On October 1, 2025 the United States federal government “shut down.” This is not the first time it has happened. ...
On October 1, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order giving Qatar a security guarantee—something the Constitution reserves for ...
James C. Capretta, The congressional appropriations process: Background and potential innovations, American Enterprise Institute, September 2025. James C. Capretta notes that ...
Nearly six decades ago, Samuel Huntington wrote, “In functions and powers, American Presidents are Tudor kings. In institutional role, as ...
In today’s American political system, the president is the unquestioned leader. But this was not how the framers of the ...
Source: USAFacts.org The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 requires Congress to pass twelve appropriations bills before the September ...
Donald Trump has been pushing hard against the boundaries of presidential authority. But at the core of the separation of ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VIII: Patronage and the Emergence of Senatorial Hegemony, American Enterprise Institute, September 12, 2025. This ...
In the pantheon of the heroes of the early republic, certain names stand out: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, ...
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 ...
Congress is down, but how close is it to being out? What is the ultimate source of its vitality, and ...
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in Washington, D.C., and took control of the Metropolitan ...
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 ...
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