by jpitney | May 18, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus, Deliberation, Technology
Daniel Schuman and Amelia Strauss at First Branch Forecast: Congress is beginning to innovate around how it deliberates in committees and on the floor. These changes are driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has made in-person meetings unsafe and unwise,...
by jpitney | May 16, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus, House of Representatives
Katherine Tully-McManus at Roll Call: The coronavirus pandemic has prompted the House to allow lawmakers to vote by proxy, without physical presence at the Capitol. The significant, yet temporary, change to operations was not enacted during any other national crisis...
by jpitney | May 15, 2020 | Civility, Coronavirus
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by jpitney | May 13, 2020 | Congress, Coronavirus
The Bipartisan Policy Institute and other organizations across the spectrum have an open letter to congressional leadership: We write to express our deep concern over the lack of a clear and transparent plan for maintaining congressional operations during the COVID-19...
by jpitney | May 12, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Economic Policy, State Government
From the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College — Written by Sevion DaCosta, Tara Mehra, Robin Peterson, Henry Schulz, and Nathaniel Tran, our newest report explores some of the ways the CARES Act is impacting state and local...
by jpitney | May 11, 2020 | Coronavirus, Deliberation
At National Review, Kevin D. Williamson on consensus: Consensus, with its suggestions of compromise and trans-partisanship, is an idea not at the apex of its career. On the left, progressives and populists spent years mocking and lamenting the so-called Washington...
