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, ...
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 ...
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