by jpitney | Feb 8, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Former Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) were great party leaders in their time. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) probably comes closest to their caliber of leadership in...
by jpitney | Feb 5, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
At the Niskanen Center, Soren Dayton, Josiah Watney offer a history of the House Rules Committee. The conclusion: From the 1930s to the 1960s, there were a series of fights over economics and Civil Rights. To accomplish their policy and political goals,...
by jpitney | Feb 4, 2025 | Congress, Elections, Transparency, Violence
Andrew Solender at Axios: Threats against members of Congress skyrocketed in 2024, marking a return to levels not seen since the year after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to new Capitol Police data. Why it matters: The data suggests that the...
by jpitney | Jan 31, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: The House seems to have a special penchant for birthing select committees to complement the work of its 20-plus standing committees. In the last Congress, for instance, it created select committees or subcommittees on the strategic...
by jpitney | Jan 30, 2025 | Congress, Dreier, Elections, House of Representatives, Transparency, Volunteering
At Roll Call, Jackie Wang interviews Rep.Vince Fong: Q: How has Congress changed since you were first a staffer? A: The people make this place go, and if you look at who was there at the time, it was members like Jim McCrery, Wally Herger, David Dreier, Dan...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2025 | Congress, Elections, House of Representatives, Technology, Transparency, Volunteering
Lorelei Kelly at The Conversation: Congressional staff serve in thousands of district offices across the nation, and their communications technology doesn’t match that of most businesses and even many homes. Members’ district offices only got connected...
