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Today: Foreign affairs: How Congress can play a constructive role

May 12, 2020  ·  Kevin Kosar
Source: Defense.gov Click here to RSVP The Executive Branch is not the only voice in foreign policymaking. The Constitution gives Congress numerous foreign affairs responsibilities, including the power… Read More

Five new recommendations for virtual congressional hearings

May 11, 2020  ·  Rachel Orey and Michael Thorning
While much of the country has already figured out how to conduct business remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress is moving slowly and erratically to implement plans for how it… Read More

New CRS report offers an authoritative review of the current debate over OTA

May 8, 2020  ·  Zach Graves
The report looks at the pros and cons of five different approaches Congress could take: Reestablish OTA Without Changes to Its StatuteReestablish OTA with Changes to Its StatuteCharge an Existing… Read More

A Plan for the People’s House Four Strategies to Reopen Congress and Restore America’s Voice

May 7, 2020  ·  Kevin McCarthy
Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Recently, we called on Speaker Pelosi to establish a clear, safe, and effective plan for reopening… Read More

Escaping the foreign policy dilemma

May 6, 2020  ·  Kevin Kosar
Source: Gallup.com. One of the reasons we have elections is for the sake of better synchronizing political leaders with the wishes of the public. Yet, in the realm of… Read More

Foreign Affairs: How Congress can play a constructive role

May 5, 2020  ·  Kevin Kosar
Source: Defense.gov Click here to RSVP The Executive Branch is not the only voice in foreign policymaking. The Constitution gives Congress numerous foreign affairs responsibilities, including the power… Read More

The election is in six months. Where does the race for control of Congress stand?

May 3, 2020  ·  Charles Hunt
It’s an election year. It can be easy to forget that, given the appropriately single-minded focus in the media on COVID-19 and its devastating health and economic impacts. But in… Read More

Important COVID-19 update to SpendingTracker.org

May 1, 2020  ·  Jonathan Bydlak
In the last two months, multiple spending bills have been signed into law with the intention of alleviating the threat of the coronavirus pandemic and providing relief to individuals and… Read More

Presidential purse snatching

April 30, 2020  ·  George Will
Some constitutional language is necessarily open-textured, as when it forbids the “establishment” of religion or “unreasonable” searches, or when it guarantees the “free exercise” of religion, “due process” and “equal… Read More

The Crisis Congress: What is the legislature’s job in a national crisis?

April 29, 2020  ·  Yuval Levin and Adam White
Recent weeks have seen the U.S. Congress rise to the challenge of a public-health crisis in some impressive ways. In an era when the institution barely moves, and major bipartisan… Read More