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September 2021

September 17, 2021

An Unexamined Revolution

The $3.5 trillion social infrastructure bill would have revolutionary consequences for American society as a...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

Trump Signs Republican Spending Bill–Planned Parenthood Gets $500 million

Back in February, with great effort, Congress passed a budget agreement, but the details and...

February 2018

February 09, 2018

A Budget Both Parties Can Live With?

In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, Congressional leaders of both parties agreed on a...

January 2018

January 19, 2018

Should We Bring Back Earmarks to Make Congress Effective?

Our nation's legislative branch is stalemated on issue after issue, from the complexities of immigration...

September 2017

September 11, 2017

Trump turns to the Democrats

President Trump has formed an alliance with the Democrats, to the consternation of Republicans....

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Republicans again fail to repeal & replace Obamacare

Two more Republican Senators announced that they would oppose the latest attempt to repeal and...

May 2017

May 05, 2017

House votes to repeal & replace Obamacare

The House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace Obamacare, a long-time Republican commitment that...

May 02, 2017

Congress gets busy on the budget & Obamacare

Congress has passed a spending deal that will keep the government from shutting down. The...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Trump can’t withhold all money from sanctuary cities

A court ruled that President Trump may not withhold all federal funds from "sanctuary cities"...

March 2017

March 24, 2017

Trump will keep Obamacare if his healthcare bill fails–which it did

Republican lawmakers, seeing that they don't have the votes, postponed voting on President Trump's healthcare...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Discuss Trump’s speech to Congress

This is the place to discuss President Trump's address to the joint session of Congress....

November 2016

November 09, 2016

Congress, marijuana, beer, and other election results

The presidency was not the only important election last night. Republicans kept control of both...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

The Pope’s sermon to America

Pope Francis addressed a joint session of Congress, taking the opportunity to preach against tenets...

September 18, 2015

Pro-life initiatives in Congress

Senate Republicans say they will put forward a bill that would ban all abortions after...

November 2014

November 17, 2014

The Obamacare confession

When I heard about the Obama operative who said that the passage of Obamacare was...

November 10, 2014

Our latest war is now illegal

The War Powers Act allows presidents to launch hostilities at their discretion, but they must...

December 2013

December 10, 2013

Republicans are now playing nice on the budget

Republicans in Congress tried to cut the deficit by letting the government shut down, being...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Laws that try to cover everything

In a discussion of the struggling Immigration Reform Bill, George Will tells about the Compromise...

November 05, 2013

What to do about gerrymandered elections?

An issue for election day: One of the problems in our political system today is...

October 2013

October 17, 2013

Congress stops default & ends shutdown

Cutting it close as usual, on the day before the government would run out of...

October 16, 2013

Democrats up the ante on default bill

It looked like Congress was close to an agreement on funding the government and avoiding...

September 2013

September 19, 2013

Defund Obamacare or shut down the government

Republicans in Congress say they will agree to stop the impending shutdown of the federal...

September 02, 2013

Obama will ask Congress before attacking Syria

President Obama has agreed to ask Congress for authorization before he attacks Syria. I salute...

January 2013

January 31, 2013

The government efficiency argument

Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein says that "How government is run, more than what exactly...

January 26, 2013

Checking and balancing the President

The Constitution's separation of powers and checks and balances at work: A federal appeals court...

January 25, 2013

The federal program that wouldn’t die

There is a line item in the budget that costs nearly a half million dollars. ...

January 02, 2013

Congress scrambles back up the cliff

Congress stayed up late last night and at 10:35 p.m. voted 257 to 167 to...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

How much the fiscal cliff will cost you

To descend from the theoretical to the tangible, here is how much your taxes will...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

Breaking pledges

Republican lawmakers are bailing on the formal pledge they made not to vote for a...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

Republicans will raise taxes if Obama wins

Republicans have used their majority in the House of Representatives to foil President Obama's attempts...