Congress in 2023: Delays, Defeats, Dissension

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Counting laws is a poor indicator of either productivity or the significance of a Congress’s actual accomplishments. For one thing, Republicans don’t think more laws necessarily translate into real progress. As former Republican Speaker...

Former Members Speak on Threats and Violence

From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst: The increased level of political violence that members of Congress fear and experience today has emerged as a common thread across political party affiliations in an extensive new survey of nearly 300 former members of...

Unproductive

Andrew Solender at Axios: The 118th Congress is on track to be one of the most unproductive in modern history, with just a couple dozen laws on the books at the close of 2023, according to data from data analytics firm Quorum.   Why it matters: It’s the...