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The Fix blog at the Washington Post has an article arguing that since 1978, Congress has only worked a full week 14%

Congress returns from its August recess next week, and is well positioned to conclude one of the least productive Congresses in modern

Congress returns from recess next week after an unexpectedly successful final week in July. Congress passed a significant Veterans health bill and

Chris Cillizza wrote a piece titled, “Why it’s going to be hard for Democrats to win back the House this decade.” He makes

There’s no single reason for the failure to fulfill early expectations, and many observers were skeptical from the start, despite the more

Quinnipiac University’s “worst president” poll got a lot of press. Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, Fox, and virtually every other news

The Supreme Court handed President Obama a defeat in NLRB v. Noel Canning  this week, declaring that Obama’s three appointments to the

The Supreme Court handed President Obama a defeat in NLRB v. Noel Canning  this week, declaring that Obama’s three appointments to the

While this year marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act, it also marks the first anniversary of Shelby County

Some Republicans are eager to impeach the President. Some are so eager that they go on the record saying that impeachment would

There has obviously been no shortage of post-race analyses of Eric Cantor’s primary defeat on Tuesday.  No one has claimed credit for

Dana Milbank’s recent article on the record number of “closed rules” approved by the Republican-led House leaves out one important factor: fundraising.

Last December, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted a drone strike in Yemen that appears to have gone horribly wrong by

The Fix recently wrote about how “A 2015 rebellion against John Boehner would be unprecedented.” In the piece Philip Bump argues that “no

The Washington Post’s Wonkblog had a write up on congressional productivity not long ago. Its central thesis is Congress is more productive