by jpitney | Jul 10, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on his friendship with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY): “I told Liz I can’t wait to going back to disagreeing with her about everything. But right now, we are in a constitutional emergency, and we are all constitutional first responders.”...
by jpitney | Jul 9, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists
A wreath was placed during a remembrance ceremony at the Guardians Of The First Amendment Memorial in Annapolis, in honor of the fallen journalists of the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting. June 28, 2022 (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
by jpitney | Jul 8, 2022 | Congress, Deliberation, Democracy, Transparency
National Constitution Center’s Restoring the Guardrails of Democracy Project TEAM CONSERVATIVE By: Sarah Isgur, David French and Jonah Goldberg. Negotiation is a very difficult thing to do in broad daylight. As with our gelded political parties, Congress is weakened...
by jpitney | Jul 7, 2022 | Civility, Congress
The Congressional Management Foundation and the Partnership for Public Service have a report titled State of the Congress 2022: In collaboration with the Partnership for Public Service, the Congressional Management Foundation assembled a group of 128 congressional...
by jpitney | Jul 6, 2022 | Civility, Congress, Interns
Katherine Tully-McManus at Politico: Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is the latest lawmaker to make public the horrific threats and vile voicemails his staff field, a reality that has become the norm for so many offices on Capitol Hill. “The darkness has reached new...
