by jpitney | May 16, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility
Deena Winter at Minnesota Reformer: Sandra Feist and Kristin Robbins sat behind a desk in a state Capitol committee hearing room, preparing to tell a panel of their colleagues about their bill requiring schools to have student cell phone policies. They were working...
by jpitney | May 15, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
From The Lugar Center: The Lugar Center and the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index (BPI) rankings for 2023 – the first year of the current 118th Congress. The nonpartisan tool, which was launched in...
by jpitney | May 14, 2024 | California Politics, Housing
The number of fires that are related to homeless people or tents has been climbing in Los Angeles. The I-Team’s Joel Grover reports.
by jpitney | May 13, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: From eighth grade civics through college government courses to nearly three decades each of working in the House and then the think tank world, I mistakenly believed that Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives could vote only to...
by jpitney | May 12, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
At Politico, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke with Ryan Lizza and Rachel Bade: The person on the other side of the aisle is not an enemy. They’re a fellow American. Our enemies are like Hamas and Hezbollah and the people who are trying to kill us. These are our political...
