by jpitney | Dec 1, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Yesterday, the House GOP Conference rejected an earmark ban. At The Hill, Zachary Courser and Michael Thorning suggest that the Republicans made the right call: Directed spending is not deficit spending. Directed spending falls within the topline spending...
by jpitney | Nov 29, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Yes, McCarthy as Speaker can later engineer House votes on resolutions removing anyone he wants from any standing committee, as the Democrats did twice in 2021. It is clear what is at play here is a belief that “revenge is sweet” and...
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 18, 2022 | Congress, Demographics, Disabilities, House of Representatives, Senate
Taylor Orth at YouGov: Polling conducted by YouGov in the days following this year’s election finds that large shares of Americans believe it’s important for their elected officials to be demographically representative of the American population; among...
by jpitney | Nov 17, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress
Senator Mitt Romney last week: Depending on the outcome of several key races, the Republican Party could soon have control of one or both houses of Congress. Robert Frost and politics don’t really mix, but his famous allegory is apt: Two roads diverge before this...
by jpitney | Nov 11, 2022 | Civility, Congress
Applications are open for the Henry Clay Center’s fully funded, public-policy summer program – the College Student Congress! This two-week program in Lexington, Kentucky, and Washington, D.C. is an ideal academic and professional experience for current college juniors...
