Posts Tagged ‘Congress’
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Expanding the Size of the Senate?
Posted on July 23, 2014
There’s nothing sacred about having 100 Senators and 435 Members of the House of Representatives. It was 103 years ago, in August of 1911, when Congress passed the Apportionment Act,...
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All Too Often, Good Politics = Bad Policy
Posted on July 8, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill) Republicans have a historic chance to take back the Senate this November. If they control both houses of Congress, they will have an opportunity...
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The Non-Scandal Scandal
Posted on July 2, 2014
This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal You wonder why Congress has approval ratings of 7%? The fake scandal over a simple change in ethics rules helps explain why....
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The Happy Warrior
Posted on June 19, 2014
Steve Scalise is a conservative, but as Quinn Hillyer put it in the National Review, channeling Mike Huckabee, he’s not mad about it. As the head of the Republican Study...
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Murder on the Cantor Express
Posted on June 19, 2014
One of my favorite movies is “Murder on the Orient Express.” Hercule Poirot investigates who murdered Mr. Ratchett, played by Richard Widmark in the movie. It turns out that just...
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