by jpitney | Aug 28, 2023 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Lee Hamilton: Given everything that’s been taking place on Capitol Hill, I’d guess you missed the announcement a few months back that the House Civility Caucus has been revived. It would be hard to call this earth-shattering news — but in our current political...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives
Peter Cohn and Herb Jackson at Roll Call: House Republicans have so thoroughly stacked the earmarking deck in their favor in appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year that the top Democratic recipient doesn’t even appear in the top 60 among lawmakers in that...
by jpitney | Jul 27, 2023 | Congress, House of Representatives, Impeachment
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Here is the expungement paradox. On the one hand, there is a close precedent involving the president and Congress in which action was taken by one house against a president in a previous Congress. [The 1834 “censure” of...
by jpitney | Jul 22, 2023 | Civility, House of Representatives
Annie Karni at NYT: Dean’s Car Care, an auto repair shop in Portland, Ore., used to regularly rack up five stars and gushing accolades on Yelp and Google Reviews for its reliable and friendly service. “Honest and affordable. What else could you ask for?” one happy...
by jpitney | Jul 20, 2023 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Judy Kurtz at The Hill: Now, StoryCorps’s One Small Step, in partnership with The Hill, is going a step further, by facilitating conversations in Congress. The new project pairs up lawmakers, along with senior staff members at the Capitol, for chats with their...
by jpitney | Jul 12, 2023 | House of Representatives, Polarization, Uncategorized
Donald Wolfensberger at The Hill: In 2008, David E. Kyvig, a professor of history at Northern Illinois University, published “The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture Since 1960.” In his preface, Kyvig says the purpose of the book is to answer “why...
