Topic: Legislative Procedure (page 22)

In the Washington Post, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote: The day after Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court was announced, I wrote about his sterling credentials, record of… Read More

By Joshua C. Huder It’s a nuclear week in the Senate. Majority Leader McConnell has hinted that he has the votes to go “nuclear” on Judge Gorsuch’s nomination to the… Read More

Fifty years ago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in the Public Interest of a “crisis of confidence.” In short, the federal government had for decades spent funds to improve… Read More

Photo credit: Wikipedia. At the American Conservative, Daniel R. Depeteris writes:  “An increasing number of lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats, are finally beginning to come to grips with this embarrassing situation. Read More

On Thursday and Friday of last week (March 23rd & 24th), the House of Representatives twice divided sharply over whether to approve its Journal. This was unusual. The… Read More

On the R Street Institute Blog, Kevin Boyd writes: “We’re not considering any boots-on-the-ground approach,” then-President Barack Obama said during an Aug. 30, 2013 news conference about the situation… Read More

Illustration credit: Wikipedia. by Rob Oldham Don’t sound the alarm just yet, but it looks like the Republican Party’s policy agenda might be in trouble. Without a 60-member Senate… Read More

By Joshua C. Huder The debate to repeal and replace Obamacare was always going to be a serious test for congressional leaders. Reorganizing an eighth of the economy has massive… Read More

Photo credit: House.appropriations.gov At Vox, Lee Drutman writes: “Over the past day or so, House Democrats, journalists, and a handful of very conservative Republicans been fulminating over the secretive… Read More

Tevi Troy wrote in National Affairs: “In May 2007, when I was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve as deputy secretary of Health and Human Services,… Read More