by jpitney | Apr 11, 2021 | Congress
John F. Harris at Politico: “All parts of the Bell Curve of society are well represented,” one lawmaker told me, pondering the assortment of many dolts and at least a few deviates who count as colleagues. A senator observed that ambition and discipline count for a...
by jpitney | Apr 10, 2021 | Constitution
Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck at CNN: Texas Republican Party chairman Allen West falsely suggested that Texas could secede from the United States and become an independent country, a CNN KFile review of his comments in recent months shows.In radio interviews after the...
by jpitney | Apr 9, 2021 | California Politics
At LAT, Mark Z. Barabak explodes the myth that huge masses of Californians are pouring into Texas. The nonpartisan California Policy Lab found that most people who moved in 2020 remained within the state, many trading city life for more suburban or rural areas. The...
by jpitney | Apr 8, 2021 | Congress, Senate
James Wallner at Legislative Procedure: There are several reasons why senators’ procedural independence declined beginning in the 1930. For example, New Deal legislation packed the Senate’s agenda and its members were spending less time on the floor beginning in this...
by jpitney | Apr 7, 2021 | Congress
William Gray at LegBranch.org: The U.S. Congress depends on informal rules — norms — to function. Many traditional norms such as courtesy and reciprocity are under siege in this age of partisan conflict. What are the congressional norms of today? How are they...
