Event Today on Modernizing Congress

Claremont McKenna College and AEI have an event today at 8 AM Pacific: Last December, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed that a temporary committee created to make Congress “more effective, efficient, and transparent” would continue its work through 2023. Organized...

Navalny

From the Committee to Protect Journalists: New York, January 26, 2021 – Russian authorities should allow journalists to cover protests freely and without fear, and refrain from attacking or detaining members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said...

A Farewell to Amendatory MTRs

Patrick Ramjug at LegBranch.org: says that two types of motions to recommit (MTRs) on the House floor: the rare “simple” MTR sends the bill back to the reporting committee, effectively killing it. The “amendatory” MTR is akin to an eleventh-hour amendment to the bill...