Topic: Legislative Procedure (page 24)

Source: MajorityLeader.gov One aspect of congressional capacity i the calendar: how long the House and Senate are in town doing legislative business affects how much they can get done. Rachel… Read More

A 1995 Office of Technology Assessment report. Source: http://ota.fas.org By Richard E. Rowberg The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) was de-funded in 1995. Whenever Congress considers whether OTA… Read More

By Joshua C. Huder Republicans won both elected branches of government on Tuesday night. They will add the Third Branch soon as a SCOTUS nominee will be among the first… Read More

Mark Strand and Tim Lang write in a new Congressional Institute short report: Although the House of Representatives adopts rules on the first day of each new Congress, the… Read More

The speakers at this October 19, 2016 meeting of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group were: Kevin R. Kosar, R Street Institute John Costello, TechCongress Adam Keiper,… Read More

The House Committee on Science held a hearing on Congress and scientific knowledge on July 25, 2006. The Office of Technology Assessment, which had been defunded and shuttered 11… Read More

Adam Keiper, editor of the New Atlantis, authored this fine essay on the Office of Technology Assessment. He interviewed former OTA staff in the course of researching the piece,… Read More

The topic of the day is, “Should We Revive the Office of Technology?” Congress established the Office of Technology Assessment in 1972, during the same era when it strengthened… Read More

In this short audio interview, Professor James Curry (University of Utah) explains how limited resources have enabled party leaders to write and negotiate most laws in Congress. Lacking… Read More

If Congress has often been unwilling to actively control the output of the administrative state, over the years it has also become effectively unable to do so. As the… Read More