Archive for the ‘Congress’ Category
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The Five P’s of Predicting a Winner In An Mid-Term Senate Election
Posted on August 25, 2014
People ask me how I rate the Senate races. Here is my handy-dandy guide that you can use at home. Possession is 9/10’s of the law: If you are an...
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The Passing of Jim Jeffords
Posted on August 19, 2014
In the opening months of the 107th Congress, with the House firmly in Republican hands but the Senate tied fifty-fifty, rumors started flying. Was somebody going to switch parties to...
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Expanding the Size of the Senate?
Posted on July 23, 2014
There’s nothing sacred about having 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives. It was 103 years ago, in August of 1911, when Congress passed the Apportionment Act,...
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Boehner’s Blunder or Barack’s Brush-Back
Posted on July 11, 2014
If I were a constitutional lawyer, I would find Speaker of the House John Boehner’s impending lawsuit against President Obama completely fascinating. I am not a lawyer, so I can’t...
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Pete King’s GOP
Posted on June 24, 2014
This originally appeared in The Hill. Congressman Pete King (R-N.Y.), a familiar pugilist on cable television, took his message of a robust American foreign policy to New Hampshire for the...
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