Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
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Can Ted Cruz Win? (Probably Not)
Posted on March 24, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill.) I was listening to Rush Limbaugh when I heard the advertisement. The voice blaring over the radio belonged to the junior senator from Texas,...
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Lessons From Ireland
Posted on March 17, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Ireland is on the mind of official Washington today. From the White House, where the president receives shamrocks from the Irish prime minister, to...
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The Real Budget Question: How Do You Grow the Economy?
Posted on March 13, 2015
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) House Republicans spent a lot of time in 1995 and 1996 fighting over arcane details of their budget resolution: whether to...
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Restore The Congress to Counter the President
Posted on March 10, 2015
(This originally appeared in The Hill) In 1989, the first year I arrived in Washington as a staffer to House Minority Leader Bob Michel, the Heritage Foundation released a tome...
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The Path Forward After DHS
Posted on March 6, 2015
(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...
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