The House budget proposal is being brought to the floor under an uncommon rule called the queen-of-the-hill. It’s being framed as quirky, odd and, at times,
The House budget proposal is being brought to the floor under an uncommon rule called the queen-of-the-hill. It’s being framed as quirky, odd and, at times,
Since the House budget resolution dropped yesterday a lot of complaints have surfaced about its lack of detail. Lack of detail have
Article II of the Constitution begins, “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” The
Today Senate Republicans are moving forward on the inevitable. They will vote on a clean DHS funding bill with no immigration riders attached.
It’s well known that any Republican attempt to reverse Obama’s executive action would be an uphill battle. Because any congressional response required a legislative fix, Republicans face
Institutional power is more of an academic topic. Nonetheless, it has enormous ramifications. The current immigration debate is a great example of
Republicans’ flirtation with a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security intensified over the weekend. Boehner appears entrenched and suggested Sunday that
Frustrated House Republicans lashed out against their Senate colleagues Thursday cialis dosierungen. Without a clear path forward on the DHS funding bill,
Obama had some interesting things to say about polarization and the filibuster in his interview with Vox. When the question of if government
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell received a fair amount of flak this week for his attempts to move forward on the DHS funding
This piece was co-written with Mark Harkins, a Senior Fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University. He worked on Capitol
For federal departments and agencies, the most important issue in the First Session of the 114th Congress will be the shape of
For the past week, Majority Leader McConnell experimented with an open amendment process in the Senate. Members offered amendments on everything from
Can decades of dysfunction reverse course in a single Congress? No. But despite the general pessimism surrounding Congress there are several reason
The 113th Congress may very well go down in history as the least democratic in our nation’s history. Except it probably not in
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