by jpitney | May 4, 2021 | Coronavirus, India, Journalism
At The Guardian, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, as told to Sophie Zeldin-O’Neill: India is a huge, diverse country to cover and I’m indebted to the brilliant work of local journalists who have been on the ground, exposing the shortage of oxygen and beds and counting the...
by jpitney | May 3, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, Uncategorized
The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index rankings for the full 116th Congress (2019 – 2020). The non-partisan tool measures the degree to which Senators and...
by jpitney | May 2, 2021 | Civility, Republican, Romney
Bryan Schott and Tony Semerad at The Salt Lake Tribune: Sen. Mitt Romney was lustily booed by the more than 2,100 Republican delegates who packed into the Maverik Center on Saturday for the party’s state convention. “Aren’t you embarrassed?” said Romney trying...
by jpitney | May 1, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
At LegBranch.org, Scott Meinke notes that the House Rules Committee has been regularly issuing rules that combine provisions for considering two or more measures in a single resolution. These multiple-measures rules made up about a quarter of the rules issued in the...
