by jpitney | Aug 10, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Congress
At The Washington Post, Amber Phillips explains the progress of infrastructure legislation: Rebuilding infrastructure is popular. Counterintuitively, bipartisan agreements in Congress are more common than we think, says Molly Reynolds, a congressional analyst with the...
by jpitney | Aug 10, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
At R Street, Nan Swift wries on the Select Committee on the Organization of Congress (SCOMC): While the rest of Congress squabbles over masks, the SCOMC has continued to work diligently, guided by their commitment to civility, consensus and purpose. The results of...
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2021 | Crime, Journalism
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Katherine Jacobsen interview Rick Hutzell ,former editor of the Capital Gazette, the site of the worst newsroom shooting in U.S. history, With the Capital Gazette’s Annapolis office permanently closed for financial reasons due...
by jpitney | Aug 7, 2021 | Congress, Presidency, Public Policy
At AEI, Gary Schmitt writes of the constitutionally-dubious extension of the eviction moratorium: Rather than using her majority in the House to pass new legislation, Speaker Pelosi punted on what ought to be the primary responsibility of Congress — passing a law....
by jpitney | Aug 6, 2021 | Civility
Virginia’s Community Colleges We need to learn to listen better to each other, but that’s so much easier said than done. We seem to find that anything that challenges our own school of thought is something that needs to be feared, and therefore something that...
