by jpitney | Mar 20, 2021 | Civility, Uncategorized
Richard J. Prystowsky at AACU: How to Guide Groups in Embracing Viewpoint Diversity → When possible, have participants sit in a circle in order to create a community-like setting. → Agree to jettison hierarchies in the room. Also agree that no one will be...
by jpitney | Mar 20, 2021 | Budget, Congress
From AEI: (click to RSVP) The Constitution gives Congress alone the authority to raise government revenues and decide how to spend those dollars. James Madison described this power as “the most complete and effectual weapon with which any constitution can arm the...
by jpitney | Mar 19, 2021 | Journalism
Lucinda Judd at The Flyer (U of Dayton): Journalists of certain fields are accustomed to warfare, personal attacks and even death. When I visited the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in 2018, I noticed a memorial: a wall of pictures of journalists that lost their lives...
by jpitney | Mar 18, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Jennifer Shutt and Lindsey McPherson at Roll Call: House Republicans lifted their decade-old ban on earmarks Wednesday during a closed-door vote, freeing up members to request “congressionally directed spending” under the new process Democrats announced last month....
by jpitney | Mar 17, 2021 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: When the proxy voting rule was renewed at the beginning of the current Congress, members have been reminded that reasons for absences must be limited to circumstances surrounding the pandemic (but then, what isn’t nowadays). However,...
