James Capretta, Dysfunction in Federal Budgeting Structural Factors and Selected Reforms, American Enterprise Institute, January 2025. James Capretta Dysfunction in Federal ...
President-elect Donald Trump and senior advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chairs of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, ...
Congressional Research Service, House Leadership Structure: Overview of Party Organization, Congressional Research Service, report RS20930, July 10, 2003. Congressional Research Service ...
Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) recently took to X.com to celebrate the Immigration and Customs Officials arrests of more than ...
Annual deficits make for growing deficits. Source: Wikipedia. There are serious issues with America’s federal budget. Very serious issues. Where to begin? Let ...
Source: Philip Wallach. The 118th Congress was historically unproductive. In some ways, though, it was one for the history books, featuring ...
The cloistered Rules Committee in late December of 2024. Source: House Committee on the Rules. As it scrambled to pass a ...
The House Committee on Veterans Affairs met recently to discuss the topic of regulation and to pick a bone with ...
The author observes in his written testimony before the House Committee on Veterans Affairs that when agencies issue regulations that ...
By Philip Wallach and Jaehun Lee When he was first elected president in November 2016, Donald Trump chose a diverse array ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been much in the news since its creation was announced in mid-November by ...
The day after the election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stood before assembled reporters. “Good morning, everyone,” he said with a slight smile ...
The Senate did not pass a budget resolution in spring of 2024, nor did it enact any of the dozen ...
Buy it. It is not easy being a staffer on Capitol Hill. No, the work is not road paving or ditch ...
Source: Bipartisan Policy Center. J.D. Rackey et al., Optimizing the U.S. Congressional Calendar to Boost Legislative Productivity, Bipartisan Policy Center, October ...
https://youtu.be/G0jDQIVMsoc?si=6psXffMzq-PCEdxc This primer video helpfully explains how the selection process for the majority leader is selected, which is very different from ...
Hello? Is there anyone here? The U.S. Senate chamber, 1891. Source: R.K. Bonine via the Library of Congress. Last month, Sen. George ...
Senate pageboys celebrate adjournment in October, 1949, with good reason. The 80th Congress enacted more than 900 bills in a ...
Hoover Institution and Sunwater Institute, Revitalizing the House Bipartisan Recommendations on Rules and Process, September 2024. This nonpartisan report recommends various ...
President Joe Biden’s White House recently delivered to Congress its “Mid-Session Review” of the federal budget. The bottom line in this late July ...
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