by jpitney | Feb 27, 2021 | Civility
From Washington State University:
by jpitney | Feb 26, 2021 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Jonathan Bydlak at R Street: Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Chairwoman Klobuchar, and Ranking Member Blunt: The COVID-19 pandemic, growing economic hardship for many American families, a national reckoning over racial injustice, and the...
by jpitney | Feb 25, 2021 | Congress, Public Opinion
Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: Thirty-five percent of Americans currently approve of the way Congress is handling its job, a 10-percentage-point increase since January and the highest Gallup has measured in nearly 12 years. The current results are from a Feb. 3-18...
by jpitney | Feb 24, 2021 | Debt, Economic Policy
Many posts have discussed the deficit and the debt. Policymakers and the general public have tended to ignore these problems in recent years, in part because of low inflation and interest rates. We have not had a double-digit annual increase in the consumer price...
by jpitney | Feb 23, 2021 | Civility
James Wigderson at RightWisconsin: A resolution calling for peace in politics died at the county Republican Party caucus level on Saturday [2/13]. The Oconto County Republican Party decided against approving a resolution that condemns the use of violence to achieve...