by jpitney | Dec 12, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, Technology
Recommendations of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: Making Congress More Effective, Efficient and Transparent Streamline the bill-writing process to save time and reduce mistakes. Finalize a new system that allows the American people to...
by jpitney | Dec 11, 2019 | Civility
Columnist Mary Sanchez: The point of civility is not to keep the boat steady. In his “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King Jr. warned of the pitfalls of decorum, pointedly cautioning against “the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to...
by jpitney | Dec 10, 2019 | Congress, Technology, Uncategorized
Samantha McDonald and Melissa Mazmanian at LegBranch.org: Currently, uses of technology in Congress are preventing citizens from meaningfully engaging with their policymakers. Technologies such as constituent databases provide helpful tools for collecting, storing,...
by jpitney | Dec 9, 2019 | Journalism, Uncategorized
Barbara Cochran, president of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation, at The Lansing State Journal: Journalists relentlessly pursue the truth in order to provide citizens with the information they need to be self-governing. And yet, for journalists, doing that...
by jpitney | Dec 8, 2019 | Congress, Dreier, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Uncategorized
Nelson Oliveira at The New York Daily News: Washington, D.C., is home to numerous memorials and monuments honoring Americans who have sacrificed their lives for the country. But the U.S. capital lacks a permanent memorial dedicated to those who were killed while...
