Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
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An Omni is Better Than A Short-Term CR
Posted on November 25, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Should Congress pass an omnibus appropriations bill or a series of short-term continuing resolutions? An omnibus appropriations bill, or “omni,”...
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Executive Orders: A Short History
Posted on November 21, 2014
The President’s power to issue an executive order is not spelled out in the Constitution. And for the first 75 years or so of our Republic, an...
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5 Lessons from the Obamacare Fight
Posted on November 19, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) We appear to be heading toward a crisis over the president’s expected action on immigration. Luckily, the recent showdown over Obamacare...
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A Long Two Years
Posted on November 17, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill). It’s going to be a long two years. We all knew that the new Republican majority and the president had vastly different opinions on...
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Moussaoui Might Be Crazy. And He Might Be Right.
Posted on November 17, 2014
When is it easy to believe a paranoid schizophrenic in the courtroom? When it is Zacarias Moussaoui and he tells you that a Saudi prince bankrolled the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui,...
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