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...
by jpitney | May 10, 2024 | Congress, Dreier, House of Representatives
As part of his deal to keep the speakership, Kevin McCarthy put three hardliners on the Rules Committee. At Puck, David Dreier told Tina Nguyen that it was a big mistake: “What McCarthy did was just so unfortunate and just so wrong,” David Dreier, a former Republican...
by jpitney | May 9, 2024 | California Politics, Congress, House of Representatives
Sarah D. Wire at LAT: Over homemade tacos at a Capitol Hill row home, several of California’s members of Congress did something unusual last year: they gathered for a bipartisan, home-cooked meal where politics were not on the menu. The table full of Republicans and...
by jpitney | May 7, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives, Senate
by jpitney | Apr 21, 2024 | Congress, House of Representatives
Tom Cole (R-OK) is changing chairs from Rules to Appropriations. He spoke with Ryan Lizza of Politico: One of the consequences of that process-wise [motion to vacate], rules-wise, was that the Rules Committee, which you chaired until very recently, was stacked with...
