by jpitney | Sep 14, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Sam Brodey at The Daily Beast: Since January, 370 members of Congress, roughly 83 percent of the chamber, have cast a remote vote. Combined, those members have voted remotely 23,154 times—greatly surpassing the 17,263 remote votes that were cast in 2021. A sizable...
by jpitney | Sep 5, 2022 | Democracy, House of Representatives, International Relations
From the International Republican Institute: In this iteration, Brad, HDP expert speaker and former Chief of Staff to HDP co-founder, Rep. David Dreier, shares his experience participating and leading HDP programming. What was the genesis of HDP? In the post...
by jpitney | Aug 5, 2022 | Bipartisanship, Congress, House of Representatives, Polarization
Emily Wilkins at Bloomberg: Rep. Peter Meijer’s loss in his primary Tuesday night is the latest blow to dealmakers in the House known for reaching across the aisle and being willing to buck their party on votes when needed. Meijer, a member of the bipartisan Problem...
by jpitney | Jul 26, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The rules of the House today still provide for a Committee of the Whole to process all revenue measures and bills that directly or indirectly appropriate money. However, until last week the COW had not been used since the first session...
by jpitney | Jul 16, 2022 | Congress, House of Representatives
Kevin Kosar at The Hill: Those of us who have been working to goad Congress to reform itself got some bad news recently. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) lost in his primary, thanks to Illinois’ Democrats redistricting him. Davis is the ranking member of the Committee on...
by jpitney | Jun 30, 2022 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, Democracy, House of Representatives
From the text: One of my Democratic colleagues said to me recently that he looked forward to the day when he and I could disagree again. And believe me, I share that sentiment. Because when we can disagree again about substance and policy, that will mean that our...
