Archive for the ‘The Hill Columns’ Category
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Democracy Unbalanced
Posted on February 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Where is Robert Byrd, now that the Senate really needs him? The former long-serving senator from West Virginia was a stickler for congressional prerogatives....
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Characteristics of The Front-Runner
Posted on February 2, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill). The race for the Republican nomination is not as wide open as some analysts think. It is often said that the GOP tends to...
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Where are the adults?
Posted on January 27, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) “If you build it, they will come.” Steve King is no Shoeless Joe Jackson, but you have to give him some credit. A full year...
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Obama’s Opportunity
Posted on January 20, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) Ronald Reagan called on a Democratic Congress to give him a line-item veto and to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution in 1987. Bill...
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Time to take charge
Posted on January 13, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) Jay Leno is expected to give remarks to a joint meeting of House and Senate Republicans in Hershey, Pa., later this week. There is some...
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