by jpitney | Nov 24, 2022 | House of Representatives
At The Hill, Donald Wolfensberger says that House Freedom Caucus members may withhold votes from Kevin McCarthy, forcing the election of a speaker to go to multiple ballots. The Caucus wants concessions that would decentralize power in the House. Some observers have...
by jpitney | Nov 23, 2022 | Elections, Electoral College, Vice President
At AEI, Joseph Bessette and Gary Schmitt find no support for the view that the Vice President has unilateral constitutional authority to resolve electoral vote disputes. Our analysis proceeds in four stages. First, we show that the framers viewed the Vice Presidency...
by jpitney | Nov 21, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Israel, Senate
A release from Senator Tim Scott: This week, Senators Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced a resolution recognizing Israeli-American contributions and condemning antisemitism. The bipartisan resolution introduced by the co-chairs of the Senate Caucus...
by jpitney | Nov 20, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
At Roll Call, Jim Saksa reviews how the Freedom Caucus is proposing to change Republican Conference rules and House rules. “Congress has been testing this speaker-dominant model for at least 30 years,” said Kevin Kosar, congressional scholar at the American Enterprise...
by jpitney | Nov 19, 2022 | Declaration of Independence, Lincoln, Reagan
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. In 1987, President Reagan said: This is Lincoln’s greatest lesson, this lesson in liberty. He understood that the idea of human liberty is bound up in the very nature of our nation. He understood that...
