by jpitney | Jan 8, 2025 | civic virtue, Congress, Deliberation, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
Philip Wallach at AEI: As it scrambled to pass a continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown at the end of 2024, the 118th Congress ended much as it began—with serious doubts as to whether America’s legislature can rise to the level of bare competence. The...
by jpitney | Jan 6, 2025 | Congress, Senate
Andrew Desiderio at Punchbowl News: Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated to us that he’d oppose efforts to overrule the Senate’s parliamentarian if certain GOP border security and tax provisions are ruled inconsistent with budget reconciliation rules. In a...
by jpitney | Jan 5, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Daniella Diaz, Meredith Lee Hill and Jordain Carney at Politico: Speaker Mike Johnson told Republicans on Saturday that President-elect Donald Trump wants one reconciliation package, instead of the planned two that Republican leadership has been pushing, three people...
by jpitney | Jan 4, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Aidan Quigley at Roll Call: A last-minute insertion into House Republicans’ rules package for the 119th Congress substantially raises the bar for voting on legislation under suspension of the rules late in the week or over the weekend, in a concession to conservatives...
by jpitney | Jan 3, 2025 | Bureaucracy, California Politics, Ethics
Yue Stella Yu and Jeremia Kimelman at CalMatters: Historically plagued by what some staff called an “enormous” backlog, California’s campaign watchdog [the Fair Political Practices Commission] has sometimes taken years to resolve cases — exposing violations or...
by jpitney | Jan 2, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Jordain Carney and Meredith Lee Hill at Politico: Republicans will make it harder to remove the speaker in the 119th Congress under a rules package unveiled Wednesday. The proposed rules package would require nine GOP members to back making a motion to vacate to...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2025 | Civility, Uncategorized
In 2000, Presidents Ford and Carter spoke with Tim Russert about civility:
by jpitney | Dec 31, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Reagan
Jill Lawrence at The Bulwark: “Bipartisan work is as basic as the American covenant, E pluribus unum, out of many, one,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said recently on NBC’s Meet the Press. In 2022, he ran a memorable campaign ad about his unlikely work...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2024 | Business, Regulation
In September, Phil Gramm wrote at The Wall Street Journal: Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, doesn’t get enough credit for the quarter-century economic boom from 1983 to 2008 and the underlying resilience of the economy since. Without Mr. Carter’s deregulation of...
