March 6, 2015
The Path Forward After DHS
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) When push comes to shove, Congress will find a way to avoid disaster on big issues. The funding of the Department of Homeland Security shows that a bipartisan majority in Congress will coalesce...
March 6, 2015
GOP Leaders Should Have Gone To Selma
It’s a shame that the Congressional Republican Leadership didn’t travel to Selma to pay their respects to their colleague John Lewis on this historic anniversary. A shame and a missed opportunity. It was Woody Allen who said 80 percent of...
March 5, 2015
Not Ready for the Secretive Hillary
We live in a transparent and authentic age, although very few of our politicians are perceived as being either transparent or authentic. I think that’s one of the reasons why there is so much distrust of our political system. People...
March 4, 2015
Hurray to Mike Simpson!
When John Boehner needed a Member to step up and take a leadership role in bringing the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill to the House floor yesterday, his friend Mike Simpson volunteered. Simpson, a former Speaker of the House...
March 3, 2015
Sushi, Cheese Pizza and the House Freedom Caucus
(This originally appeared in The Hill) According to news reports, members of the House Freedom Caucus celebrated a victory over the Republican leadership last week with sushi, cheese pizza and alcoholic beverages in an office in the Cannon building. They...
March 3, 2015
Our Own History To Live
It was a Speaker who pushed America into the War of 1812. Henry Clay, a hero to Mitch McConnell, ascended briskly to the gavel as a 34 year-old newly elected Member of the House, and he wanted the Congress to...