Video of meeting on appropriations and regular order
At the October 2017 meeting of the Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group, Casey Burgat, Lee Drutman, Peter Hanson, and James Wallner examined and interpreted calls for “regular order” in the appropriations… Read More
ICYMI: James Wallner and Peter Hanson on the Filibuster
Episode #284 of Banter, an American Enterprise Institute podcast, features R Street Institute’s James Wallner and Grinnell College’s Peter Hanson. You can listen in at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banter-an-aei-podcast/id427915745?mt=2# or https://ricochet.com/podcast/banter-284-james-wallner-peter-hanson-senate-filibuster/… 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
Why Process Matters in Congressional Appropriations
Image credit: Congressional Institute, http://conginst.org/ By C. Jarrett Dieterle As past legislative sessions have come to a close amid threats of a government shutdown, we’re forced to wonder:… Read More