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 ...
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 ...
Congress returned to work in Washington, and one of the first issues lawmakers addressed was government health insurance subsidies. These temporary, ...
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 ...
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, President Donald J. Trump issued an executive order giving Qatar a security guarantee—something the Constitution reserves for ...
Nearly six decades ago, Samuel Huntington wrote, “In functions and powers, American Presidents are Tudor kings. In institutional role, as ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of ...
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