Congress and Presidential Incapacity

by | May 23, 2025 | Biden, Congress, Presidency

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill reflects on the Biden revelations: We know that impeachment is not a valid option, even if Congress had a clue. It only applies to high crimes and misdemeanors. The Constitution’s 25th amendment was designed in part to fill that gap by...

The Ticking Time Bomb of Debt

by | May 14, 2025 | Budget, Congress, Debt

Congress is getting ready to increase the federal debt. Yuval Levin: Just continuing existing tax policy would drive the federal debt well beyond 200 percent of the size of the economy over the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. By that...

A Trick Rule

by | May 11, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives

At The Hill, Don Wolfensberger explains the procedural trick by which House Republicans barred resolutions of inquiry: Last week a special rule was scheduled to consider just five matters, all resolutions to disapprove regulations promulgated during the Biden...

The Missing Branch

by | May 10, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate

At The Atlantic, Yuval Levin writes that Congress was assertive in the 1980s and 1990s, but… The reasons for the subsequent decline in Congress’s stature and assertiveness are complex, but some of the very measures Gingrich took to consolidate power on Capitol...

Congress and Tariffs

by | Apr 28, 2025 | Congress, Economic Policy, Trade

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The first tangible sign of bipartisan pushback to the president’s tariffs occurred in the Senate where Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a bill to undo the 25 percent tariff against Canadian goods. On April 3, that measure passed, 51-48,...