JOHN STEELE GORDON
A National Disgrace
The federal budget process threatens America’s future.
A National Disgrace
The federal budget process threatens America’s future.
The annual celebration of the executive branch has become a more tragic story as the first branch of our government, the legislative branch, has increasingly taken the lead in its own diminution, so that it might be relieved of the burden of taking the lead in anything else, writes Yuval Levin.
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The Congressional Roots of Our Polarization
by james r. rogers
Over 20 years before Gingrich, Democrats implemented reforms intended to shift the House of Representatives in a decidedly liberal direction.
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by james r. rogers
Over 20 years before Gingrich, Democrats implemented reforms intended to shift the House of Representatives in a decidedly liberal direction.
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Congress Overwhelmed: The Decline in Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: It doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer — and less expert and experienced — staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. READ MORE
Our overwhelmed Congress
Do we need Congress?
House must take the first step to modernize how Congress works
Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: It doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer — and less expert and experienced — staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. READ MORE
Our overwhelmed Congress
Do we need Congress?
House must take the first step to modernize how Congress works
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