Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
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What Surprise Can We Expect This October?
Posted on September 5, 2014
Lyndon Johnson announced that he planned to halt the bombing of North Vietnam in October of 1968. Richard Nixon announced that “peace was at hand” in the Vietnam War in...
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Whew! House Passes Supplemental!
Posted on August 1, 2014
Published in the Christian Science Monitor Decoder Voices Some late-night observations about the House-passed Supplemental bill: It’s not a perfect bill. It’s probably not even a very good bill. But...
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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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Primary Challenges to GOP Leaders Say a Lot About the State of the Party
Posted on May 19, 2014
Originally Published in the WSJ Leadership is hard, especially in the U.S. Congress and especially if you are a Republican. House Speaker John Boehner easily survived his primary last week....
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