Guest Post by Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Cabana For the national security community, the calendar year has dawned with an $858 billion National
Guest Post by Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Cabana For the national security community, the calendar year has dawned with an $858 billion National
Why walk when you can fly? As the 117th Congress pushes into its lame duck session, party leaders consider an ambitious array
Every even-numbered year in the U.S., some politician or pundit will proclaim that “this is the most important election in our lifetimes!”
A bar graph haunts Washington. You know the one. Its jagged teeth notch losses for the President’s party in every post-WWII midterm
On August 24th, President Biden announced a plan to provide student loan debt relief. The policy will include debt cancellation of up
By Professor Julia Azari, Marquette University Presidential power is a bit at odds with democracy. Presidency scholars have noted this for
Sometime in the last ten years the congressional budget process died. The precise moment is hard to pinpoint because it is not
Defense officials are already busy making the obligatory annual rounds on Capitol Hill in support of the President’s preferred spending priorities. The
It’s time. Time to talk about the L word. As the cherry trees blossom in Washington and legislators’ minds turn towards reelection,
Where are we with government funding? It’s déjà vu all over again, as Congress passes another Continuing Resolution (CR). The FY2022 congressional
According to the headlines, last week Majority Leader Chuck Schumer forced the Senate to vote on a potential change to the Senate
In marking the one-year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, many are taking stock of the state of the response as well
Congress is back from its Thanksgiving recess only to face another round of demanding deadlines, the most pressing of which is averting
Last night, Republicans swept the statewide races in Virginia and made a serious push in New Jersey. Among the various pundit hot-takes
Congress provides plenty of examples of procedures that were once rarely deployed but have since become routine: Filibusters instead of debate in
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