by jpitney | Jul 23, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Public Service, Violence
Jade Walker at CNN: The House of Representatives is increasing funding and resources for lawmakers to provide them with additional security options. The “pilot program,” which is meant to assist lawmakers returning to their districts for the five-week recess, was...
by jpitney | Jul 17, 2025 | Congress, Economic Policy
From CBO: In this report, the Congressional Budget Office assesses its economic forecasts over the first two years and five years of each baseline period from as early as 1976. (The baseline period is the time frame covered by the agency’s annual baseline...
by jpitney | Jul 13, 2025 | Congress, Foreign Policy, Presidency, War Power
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: In the Iran case last month, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced concurrent resolutions in their respective chambers prohibiting the president from going to war with Iran. Kaine...
by jpitney | Jul 10, 2025 | Congress, Deliberation
R Street Institute and other think tanks comment on proposed cuts to congressional capacity: Specifically, the bill reported by the House Appropriations Committee on June 26, 2025, would decrease funding of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) by $396.5 million,...
by jpitney | Jul 8, 2025 | Congress, Corruption
Kevin Kosar at AEI: The frequent media stories about legislators’ well-timed stock trades over the past several years have fomented a slew of bills to toughen up the STOCK Act and other rules forbidding the co-mingling of officials’ powers and personal wealth. ...
by jpitney | Jul 5, 2025 | Congress, Taxes
Politico’s Brian Faler on some of the tax pork in the megabill: There’s a new supersized deduction for business meals — though only for employees at certain Alaskan fishing boats and processing plants, with the measure stipulating the facilities must be “located...
