by jpitney | Jan 23, 2020 | Civility, Congress, Senate
The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer on January 22: Let us pray. Sovereign God, author of liberty, we gather in this historic Chamber for the solemn responsibility of these impeachment proceedings. Give wisdom to the distinguished Chief...
by jpitney | Jan 21, 2020 | Congress, Separation of Powers
Matt Glassman, who currently teaches in the Claremont McKenna College Washington Semester, wrote the following for the Congressional Research Service: Congress’s role and operation in national politics is fundamentally shaped by the design and structure of the...
by jpitney | Jan 6, 2020 | Congress, Presidency, Uncategorized, War Power
Federalist 69: The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more...
by jpitney | Jan 5, 2020 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Problem Solvers
Joseph Lieberman at The Hill: Recall the recent history. At the end of the last Congress, as control of the House of Representatives shifted from one party to the other, No Labels lit a torch we called The Speaker Project. The House Problem Solvers Caucus translated...
by jpitney | Jan 4, 2020 | Bureaucracy, Congress, Oversight, Uncategorized
William Yeatman at Cato: Of course, Big Government today is largely coterminous with the administrative state. From 1995 to 2017, the executive branch issued over 92,000 rules, compared to 4,400 laws enacted by Congress. The regulatory agencies behind all this...
by jpitney | Dec 31, 2019 | Congress
From GAO: The Office of Congressional Workplace Rights’ (OCWR) mission is to effectively implement and enforce the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA), as amended in 2018 by the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act (Reform Act). OCWR...
