by jpitney | Nov 20, 2019 | Budget, Congress, Deliberation, Uncategorized
From the American Political Science Association Task Force on Congressional Reform: [The] main areas of consensus concerned ways to improve congressional capacity through increased personal and committee staffing, as well as expanded funding for existing support...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2019 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives, Uncategorized
Brian Alexander at LegBranch; In a forthcoming book on congressional norms I am writing, I argue that, despite what we may think about congressional dysfunction and partisan bickering, the norm of courtesy is surprisingly alive and relatively well in the modern...
by jpitney | Oct 24, 2019 | Congress, Uncategorized
Yale historian Joanne Freeman is author of The Field of Blood. At The New York Times last year, she wrote about physical violence on Capitol Hill. Some of the furor wasn’t slavery related; antebellum America was inherently violent, as was its politics, and Congress...
