by jpitney | May 16, 2021 | Congress, Staff
Catherine Szpindor, Chief Administrative Officer at House of Representatives, testified before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: CAO training has evolved. It began with a few classrooms where you could learn WordPerfect and other technical...
by jpitney | May 6, 2021 | civic virtue, Congress, Constitution, Election Security, Elections, Electoral College
Liz Cheney: I am a conservative Republican, and the most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken. More than 60 state and federal courts,...
by jpitney | May 5, 2021 | Civility, Congress
In Profiles in Courage, JFK wrote: [W]hat then caused the statesmen mentioned in the preceding pages to act as they did? It was not because they “loved the public better than themselves.” On the contrary it was precisely because they did love themselves...
by jpitney | May 3, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate, Uncategorized
The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index rankings for the full 116th Congress (2019 – 2020). The non-partisan tool measures the degree to which Senators and...
by jpitney | May 1, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
At LegBranch.org, Scott Meinke notes that the House Rules Committee has been regularly issuing rules that combine provisions for considering two or more measures in a single resolution. These multiple-measures rules made up about a quarter of the rules issued in the...
by jpitney | Apr 29, 2021 | Biden, Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress
More here: https://t.co/m1Yzm0ocTK — Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) April 29, 2021
