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Concentrating implementation: How ideological agreement between the House and Senate affects delegation to the bureaucracy
Image source: The Hill By Jordan Carr Peterson Many scholars and observers of American legislative politics focus on the substantive public policies contained in laws Congress enacts. For instance,… Read More
Committee Sheet: Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
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ICYMI: Top reads on Congress
Image source here By Marian Currinder Senate David Hawkings, “GOP Slips Past Another Senate Custom, and Democrats Turn Blue,” Roll Call: “And now, the “blue slip” — symbol of… Read More
What do Senators actually want for their states and what do they receive? The importance of priorities and easy political wins
Image source: Senate Appropriations By Jeremy Gelman When Congress is doling out money or projects, the evergreen question is who won and who lost? Indeed, after the passage of the… Read More
Military service and Congress
Image source: WaPo By Marian Currinder Memorial Day is a time to remember those who died while serving in the U.S. military. Since 9/11, every part of the country has… Read More
To delegate or not to delegate: Committee staff, congressional capacity, and executive authority
Image source: POGO By Austin Bussing From repeated, thinly-veiled threats to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller to drastic tariff hikes on steel and aluminum, the administration of president Donald J. Read More
ICYMI: Top reads on Congress
Image source here By Marian Currinder House Haley Byrd, “A Coup in the Offing?” Weekly Standard: “Top Republicans in Congress and the White House have in recent days entertained… Read More
Who wants to chair the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee? No one.
By Matt Glassman When Representative Charlie Dent (R-PA) resigned from Congress earlier this month, a vacancy was created on the House Committee on Appropriations, where Dent was the… Read More
Video: Weak parties and strong partisanship
At our April 2018 Legislative Branch Capacity Working Group meeting, Marquette professor and FiveThirtyEight.com contributor Julia Azari discussed her take on how and why we can have… Read More
The House and Senate go rogue?
Image source: The Hill By Joshua C. Huder Today’s Congress is often rightfully perceived as lacking democracy and controlled by a select few. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are cast… Read More