by jpitney | May 21, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives
Previous posts have discussed the “shadow Congress” or “secret Congress,” where lawmakers actually accomplish things. David Leonhardt at NYT: During the Covid pandemic, Democrats and Republicans in Congress came together to pass emergency...
by jpitney | May 20, 2024 | Congress, Economic Policy, Uncategorized
Don Wolfensberger, “Budget Act dead at 50 — or is it incognito?,” The Hill, May 16, 2024. In 30 of the last 49 years, Congress has not met the April 15 deadline for approving a budget resolution. The last time Congress completed action on all 12 appropriations by Oct....
by jpitney | May 17, 2024 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
This video lays out what happened in tonight’s heated exchange in the oversight hearing pic.twitter.com/7QTmpsa1eA — Acyn (@Acyn) May 17, 2024
by jpitney | May 15, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
From The Lugar Center: The Lugar Center and the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy today jointly released their new Bipartisan Index (BPI) rankings for 2023 – the first year of the current 118th Congress. The nonpartisan tool, which was launched in...
by jpitney | May 13, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: From eighth grade civics through college government courses to nearly three decades each of working in the House and then the think tank world, I mistakenly believed that Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives could vote only to...
by jpitney | May 12, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
At Politico, Speaker Mike Johnson spoke with Ryan Lizza and Rachel Bade: The person on the other side of the aisle is not an enemy. They’re a fellow American. Our enemies are like Hamas and Hezbollah and the people who are trying to kill us. These are our political...
