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