by jpitney | Feb 4, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives, Public Opinion
The old saying is that voters hate Congress and love their congressman. Still true. Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: Fewer than four in 10 U.S. registered voters say President Joe Biden deserves to be reelected, while less than a quarter say the same about most members...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2024 | Congress, Journalism, Journalists
Corbin Boies at The Daily Beast: The Los Angeles Times’ chaos over imminent layoffs received federal attention on Monday after 10 members of the city’s congressional delegation, led by Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), wrote a letter imploring the owner and the union that...
by jpitney | Jan 17, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress
GOP Rep. Mike Lawler to hardliners amid latest funding battle. “You don’t have control of the Senate, you have to find compromise. And the failure on the part of some of my colleagues to recognize this and continually try to undermine the majority, it’s getting...
by jpitney | Jan 11, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) at The Hill: During my time as a Kansas City councilmember, I had the privilege of meeting Republican then-Gov. Christopher “Kit” Bond. Over time, we became friends organically, with our friendship continuing to this very day. However,...
by jpitney | Jan 5, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
At The Dispatch, Rep. Patrick McHenry talks to John McCormack: “We’ve had, for most years since the turn of the century, crisis politics dominating and large legislative packages becoming the full crux of the Congress,” he noted. While those big omnibus spending...
by jpitney | Jan 1, 2024 | Congress, Constitution
Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (New York: Little, Brown, 2023), 49. In Article VI of our Constitution, the founders required that every member of Congress, all state legislators, and “all executive and judicial officers” of the federal and state...
