by jpitney | 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...
by jpitney | 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...
by jpitney | 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...
by jpitney | 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,...
by jpitney | Apr 27, 2025 | Congress, Law
Bruce Mehlman compares the number of executive orders and laws during the first hundred days of recent presidents:
by jpitney | Apr 11, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Back in the old days, if the House Rules Committee had four bills before it seeking a special rule for floor consideration, the committee would grant one special rule for each. In modern times, the committee, in order to save on time...
