How Can Congress Make Policy More Evidence-Based?
Results 4 America writes: “Over the last few years, Congress has passed bipartisan legislation that recognizes and advances the role of evidence, including the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity… Read More
Next Meeting: Monday, July 17 at 12pm
P.L. 114-140 , Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2016. In this Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group session we examine the use of data and analyses in policy-making. What are the challenges… Read More
Why Congress Should Be More Involved in Deregulation Efforts
By Jarrett Dieterle David Schoenbrod writes in the Wall Street Journal: Candidate Donald Trump vowed to spur economic growth by freeing businesses from burdensome regulation. President Trump… Read More
How Congress Became Colonized by the Imperial Presidency
Ever since Arthur Schlesinger’s 1973 book coined the phrase, the so-called “imperial presidency” has been a perennial topic of our national political discourse. At a time when the American… Read More
Next Meeting: Monday, June 12 at 12pm
Source: Wikipedia Money and Congressional Capacity Previously, the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group has examined aspects of congressional spending on its staff and resources. This session, we consider two… Read More
How Congressional Power Became Separate, But Unequal
At the R Street Institute Blog, Jarrett Dieterle writes: “A recent paper by Matthew Glassman of the Congressional Research Service lays out a primer on the history of the… Read More
Is Congress Broken? Not Necessarily
By Richard M. Skinner William F. Connelly, Jr., John J. Pitney, Jr., and Gary J. Schmitt, Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock (Brookings Institution… Read More
Come to the May, 23 Meeting of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group
Does Congress Have the Capacity it Needs to Conduct Oversight? RSVP Envisioned by the founders as the “first” branch of government, Congress has the responsibility of overseeing… Read More