Archive for the ‘Congress’ Category
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The New Normal
Posted on November 19, 2015
Yesterday, I gave a few remarks to some political insiders about how we are facing a new normal in our politics. I thought I would share those remarks with you,...
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The Armageddon Caucus
Posted on October 28, 2015
It takes a special amount of chutzpa to never show up to the Senate for any votes and then complain that when the Leadership puts together a budget deal that...
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White Smoke and Paul Ryan
Posted on October 21, 2015
(Published in the Christian Science Monitor) I had just returned from my son’s baseball practice when a friend texted me with a link to the Wikipedia page about Papal White...
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Majority of the Majority Needs to Stick with the Next Speaker
Posted on October 13, 2015
The Hastert Rule was never a rule. It was a guideline to future Speakers, a warning really about how to manage a fractious group of Members of the majority, no...
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The Myth of Regular Order
Posted on October 6, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In the aftermath of the Jim Wright resignation and the House bank scandal in the early 1990s, then-Speaker Tom Foley (D-Wash.) and then-House Minority...
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