Topic: Legislative Procedure (page 21)

Brookings’ Curtlyn Kramer writes: “Less discussed in a conversation about U.S. government personnel is the legislative branch, where Congress also relies on a large staff to support its… Read More

Source: J. Ottmann Lith. Co. after Charles J. Taylor, 1894. Source:  U.S. Senate . Listen to the University of Georgia’s Prof. Anthony J. Madonna and George Washington University’s… Read More

To its great credit, the House’s legislative branch appropriations subcommittee held an open hearing where anyone with an interest in legislative branch spending could have their say. This is… Read More

By Joshua C. Huder Originally published at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University House and Senate leaders will push through an omnibus spending package this week. The bill… Read More

This week, the House’s Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee will hold a hearing. In anticipation, Joshua Tauberer has published online the testimony he submitted. Tauberer, who founded GovTrack.US… Read More

At the Ripon Society Forum, Kevin R. Kosar writes: Mark Twain famously remarked, “Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat… Read More

The Constitution assigns Congress the power to declare war, fund the military, approve treaties and regulate commerce with other nations. Yet, over the past century presidents have taken the leading… Read More

According to Roll Call‘s David Hawkings, no. He writes: “Even as he was setting the launch codes for neutralizing the power to filibuster potential Supreme Court justices, the only… Read More

By Joshua C. Huder Next week, the government will run out of money to stay open. And in typical fashion, Congress has left itself an insanely small window to pass… Read More

Cornell Law School Professor Josh Chafetz writes in the Washington Post: “[T]he truth is, there’s less to the theatrics than meets the eye. The filibuster for Supreme Court nominees… Read More