March 19, 2015
Our Broken Budget Process
Here are five things that are wrong with the Congressional Budget Process 1) It’s non-binding: The House and the Senate work feverishly passing their respective budgets, but they never send the final product to the President. For some reason, the guys who designed...
March 17, 2015
Lessons From Ireland
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Ireland is on the mind of official Washington today. From the White House, where the president receives shamrocks from the Irish prime minister, to the Congress, where the Speaker hosts a luncheon in his...
March 13, 2015
The Real Budget Question: How Do You Grow the Economy?
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) House Republicans spent a lot of time in 1995 and 1996 fighting over arcane details of their budget resolution: whether to balance the budget in five, seven, or 10 years; which...
March 11, 2015
Hillary’s First Bout With the Media in 2016 Campaign
On January 20, 1993, I shook Bill Clinton’s hand. It was a big, soft paw, and the setting was more than a bit surreal. I had the job of escorting Marilyn Quayle down to her seat on the West Front...
March 10, 2015
Is Chuy the next De Blasio?
Will Jesus “Chuy” Garcia be the next Bill De Blasio? De Blasio, as we all know, has taken the reins in America’s biggest city, and is directing it briskly into a ditch. He has made the most headlines by alienating...
March 10, 2015
Restore The Congress to Counter the President
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In 1989, the first year I arrived in Washington as a staffer to House Minority Leader Bob Michel, the Heritage Foundation released a tome called The Imperial Congress. In the minds of the authors, Gordon...