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Podcast: How the House Committee on Administration is trying to help get the chamber back to work safely
Source: RodneyDavis.House.gov Listen here House Committee on Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R, IL) recently spoke with Tom Temin of Federal News Network in mid-July. The… Read More
Evaluating the NDAA amendment process
Last week, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (S. 4049; NDAA) by a vote of 86 to… Read More
Let senators speak to confirm more nominees
The Senate’s ability to confirm presidential nominations and pass legislation on a majoritarian basis during the 128-year period before it adopted the cloture rule to end… Read More
A strategy to speed up the Senate’s confirmation process
According to reports, Senate Democrats are obstructing President Trump’s executive and judicial nominees at unprecedented rates. In 2019, Senate Republicans used the nuclear option to speed… Read More
Hurdles to making recess appointments
The federal government selects candidates for high-level positions in the executive branch and the judiciary in one of two ways: Senate confirmation or recess appointment. The president may also make recess… Read More
Filling vacancies in the executive branch and on the federal bench
The federal government selects candidates for high-level positions in the executive branch and in the judiciary in one of two ways: Senate confirmation or recess appointment. The Constitution’s… Read More
ICYMI: Direct election and the foreign policy president
Illustration by J.S. Pugh, 1903. Illustration shows seven men as Roman senators labeled “T.C. Tillman, Lodge, Stewart, Morgan, Quay, [and] Hoar.” George F. Hoar is speaking to the others while… Read More
ICYMI: How the Senate handles the NDAA and Amendments
R Street Institute senior fellow James Wallner lays it all out on his legislative procedure blog at https://www.legislativeprocedure.com/blog/2020/7/21/the-ndaa-amendment-process… Read More
House revives floor amendments
In my previous Congress Blog (June 28) I lamented that the House Democratic leadership had barred any and all floor amendments to six major bills, all made in order by a… Read More