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...
