by jpitney | Jan 9, 2020 | Civility, State Government, Uncategorized
Reid Wilson at The Hill: When Jason Frierson (D) became Speaker of the Nevada Assembly, he wanted to signal to minority Republicans that he was open to compromise and conversation, that he represented a clean break from the partisan feuds that had riven the...
by jpitney | Jan 8, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Technology, Uncategorized
Garrett Johnson and M. Anthony Mills at LegBranch.org: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) serves as Congress’s watchdog and plays a critical role in holding the federal government accountable to the American people. In November, the comptroller general issued...
by jpitney | Jan 7, 2020 | Journalism, Uncategorized
Brittney Mejia at The Los Angeles Times: The state’s oldest weekly newspaper, which once published Mark Twain, will keep printing after a California retiree stepped in to save the day. Carl Butz, a fourth-generation native Californian, is taking over the Mountain...
by jpitney | Jan 6, 2020 | Congress, Presidency, Uncategorized, War Power
Federalist 69: The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more...
by jpitney | Jan 5, 2020 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Problem Solvers
Joseph Lieberman at The Hill: Recall the recent history. At the end of the last Congress, as control of the House of Representatives shifted from one party to the other, No Labels lit a torch we called The Speaker Project. The House Problem Solvers Caucus translated...
