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, ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part IX: Resilient Corruption and an Emerging Progressive Critique in the Late 19th Century, American ...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is one of the most prominent positions in the entire United States government ...
There is something surreal about the conflict currently playing out in Indiana, where the president of the United States has ...
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 ...
There have been many great men and women to sit in the House and the Senate. Few, however, have rivalled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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