passed by Congress. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, addressing the 2008 Financial Crisis and the ensuing Great Recession, was "only" $787 billion at the time of passage. (That number later crept up-- as Washington outlays are wont to do…
Stanley Brand. Brand, director of Penn State Law School's Washington internship program, was general counsel of the U.S. House from 1976 to 1983 and a public corruption atty.…
Sara Wilson, Medill School. Sara is a journalist based in Washington, D.C. with a MSJ from Northwestern University, where she focused on politics and policy reporting.…
Jeff Plungis. Jeff Plungis is a veteran Washington journalist who has covered the auto industry, transportation, national security, finance and politics for national publications.…
elusive in Washington. All 435 members in the U.S. House of Representatives are Democrats or Republicans. Across the Capitol, there are two of 100 senators with “(I)” after their names -- Sen. Bernie Sanders. of Vermont and Sen. Angus King. of Maine. But wait…
evolved into the modern event of partisan pageantry we for some reason watch every year. "President Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 7, 1943." | Source: Wikipedia. Same Song and Dance Every…
according to the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. Yet these companies are put on the sidelines in a system that caters to the very small percentage of wealthy businesses, individuals, unions, and special interests who participate in the Washington…
Up Next. Campaigns. Independents and Black Voters in Georgia Win the US Senate for the Democrats. January 7, 2021. It was quite an afternoon. While Washington DC police, accompanied by federal agents, were finally clearing the Capitol Building of renegade…
by mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington. It took them many years to develop their systems, safeguards and capacity to make such all-mail-in elections possible. There are a few salient problems with this national push to move ballots to the…
opinion columnist at the Washington Times wrote a piece entitled, “. Ranked-choice voting should be slotted dead last as election reform. .” The piece starts off with some good old-fashioned partisan fear-mongering: “Progressives are floating yet another…