Blog Posts (page 10)

TechCongress is growing again, and now recruiting for an expanded 2020 class of Congressional Innovation Scholars, our pipeline to Congress for graduate students in technical degree programs.    The… Read More

R Street Institute’s James Wallner and joins Matt Glassman, Josh Huder, and Mark Harkins of the Government Affairs Institute. They give a post mortem on the impeachment trial, and… Read More

Source: Defense.gov RSVP here Tuesday, February 11, 2020 Congress has delegated to the executive its authorities over war-making and national emergencies. For certain, Alexander… Read More

As the Senate’s impeachment trial dominated domestic headlines, President Trump was busy at the World Economic Forum in Davos. There, he trumpeted the United States’ economic strength to our European… Read More

Source: e-Dear Colleague letter of January 27, 2020 Revised Maximum Rate of Pay for Employees in Member, Committee, Leadership, and House Support Offices Sending Office: Chief Administrative Officer of the… Read More

Gallup polls show public approval of Congress remains around 20 percent. The dissatisfaction also is widespread within the Capitol. “This place sucks,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D, WV, vented… Read More

Source: Kevin R. Kosar, Testimony before the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress, January 14, 2020. Read More

The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress will hold a hearing on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 2pm. It will take place in the Cannon House Office Building ion… Read More

Source: Defense.gov RSVP here Tuesday, February 11, 2020 U.S. Capitol Congress has delegated to the executive its authorities over war-making and national emergencies. For certain, Alexander… Read More

The FirstBranch Forecast has done yeoman’s work to cull “all of the spending bills for the last quarter-century and lined up the spending items in a downloadable spreadsheet. Now… Read More