Publications
Republicans in the Senate are threatening to blow up the chamber’s rules if their Democratic colleagues do not support a proposal authored by Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) to…
On March 14, 2019, the United States Senate voted 59-41 in support of H.J. Res. 46, a resolution to terminate the national emergency related to the U.S.-Mexico border, which was declared by…
“As the size and complexity of the federal government has continued to grow, Congress has deprioritized spending within the offices most responsible for legislating and conducting Executive Branch…
WASHINGTON (March 14) – Members of Congress and their staff know shockingly little about the committee staffers that make Congress function. As a new Congress ramps up its legislative and oversight…
Life is full of mysteries. Does a tree make a sound when it falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it? What lies beyond the edge of the observable universe? Can senators amend a…
From Vox:
In the current Senate, they don’t. McConnell controls the floor ruthlessly, drawing on a cluttered toolbox of arcane techniques. James Wallner, a longtime Republican Hill staffer now…
From the Brian Gongol Podcast:
The myth of the Presidency has gone on too long. Philip Wallach of the R Street Institute joins us to clear up how to make Congress much greater
AIN UPDATE
On Feb. 25, the Project on Government
Oversight (POGO) published an open letter to current Republican members of Congress signed by 26
of their predecessors. In…
Note: This version is updated to correct an error in the version posted on Feb. 19, 2019.
AIN Update
On Jan. 7 of this year, the American Institutions Network
posted an AIN Update in response to the
president’s initial proposal to declare a national emergency to fund…