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 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...
by jpitney | Feb 27, 2020 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Deliberation
Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress Chair Derek Kilmer (D-WA) and Vice Chair Tom Graves (R-GA) participated in a Special Order on the House floor Monday to highlight the work of the committee and detail the recommendations that have been unanimously...
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2020 | Deliberation
At LegBranch.org, Sarah Anderson, Daniel Butler, and Laurel Harbridge-Yong write that transparency may have contributed to legislative gridlock. One promising solution, even in this polarized context, is allowing legislators more room to negotiate compromise solutions...
by jpitney | Feb 12, 2020 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation
Yuval Levin at AEI: Members consequently use their positions to build personal brands and to excite fans and followers. But these trends have been greatly exacerbated by a further transformation that does not get enough attention: the loss of protected spaces...
by jpitney | Feb 8, 2020 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation
On February 5, Norman Ornstein testified before the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I want to offer some ideas for improving the way the House debates and deliberates, based on my five decades of observing...
