by jpitney | Aug 30, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives, Infrastruture
At The Hill, Don Wolfensberger writes about floor action on the infrastructure bill: How do you tell your constituents you opposed funding for repairing the crumbling roads and bridges in their district? Just as lawyers are advised to either argue the facts or law and...
by jpitney | May 1, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
At LegBranch.org, Scott Meinke notes that the House Rules Committee has been regularly issuing rules that combine provisions for considering two or more measures in a single resolution. These multiple-measures rules made up about a quarter of the rules issued in the...
by jpitney | Apr 25, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Donald Wolfensberger at The Hill: As a denizen of the minority party during my first 26 years as a staffer in the House, I came to be quite an expert on majority party moves to counter minority party provocations. At one point, I even coined a bastardization of...
by jpitney | Mar 1, 2021 | Congress, House of Representatives
Kevin Kosar interviews Don Wolfensberger, who concludes with this bleak assessment of House rules: I think once the leadership has gained this kind of control, unless you have a major revolt, as you did against Cannon way back in 1910, things are going to stay pretty...
