by jpitney | Feb 26, 2021 | Civility, Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Jonathan Bydlak at R Street: Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Minority Leader McConnell, Chairwoman Klobuchar, and Ranking Member Blunt: The COVID-19 pandemic, growing economic hardship for many American families, a national reckoning over racial injustice, and the...
by jpitney | Sep 20, 2020 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
New report from New America: Congressional Brain Drain Legislative Capacity in the 21st Century By: Alexander C. Furnas, Timothy M. LaPira Executive Summary This research report comprehensively investigates congressional capacity and governance using publicly...
by jpitney | Aug 3, 2020 | Congress, Deliberation, House of Representatives
Jesse M. Crosson Alexander C. Furnas Timothy Lapira Casey Burgat, “Partisan Competition and the Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices,” Legislative Studies Quarterly. The abstract: Since the 1990s, members of the US House have...