by jpitney | Oct 31, 2019 | Appropriations, Congress, Uncategorized
Written testimony of Kevin R. Kosar, Vice President of Policy, R Street Institute Before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight October 30, 2019 There also is the subject of today’s hearing,...
by jpitney | Oct 30, 2019 | Congress, Technology, Uncategorized
At Scientific American, Jackson Barnett writes about the challenge of election security: One reason for the inadequate response is that elected representatives and their staffs are not tech savvy enough to understand the scope of the problems, says Lawrence...
by jpitney | Oct 26, 2019 | Civility, Congress, Uncategorized
Former Representative Trey Gowdy on the late Elijah Cummings: There are more than a few YouTube videos of Elijah and me disagreeing with each other over the years. Unfortunately, there are no videos capturing his calls of encouragement to me. Or of me pushing him in...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2019 | Congress, Uncategorized
Yale historian Joanne Freeman is author of The Field of Blood. At The New York Times last year, she wrote about physical violence on Capitol Hill. Some of the furor wasn’t slavery related; antebellum America was inherently violent, as was its politics, and Congress...
