“Senate Confirmation Process Goes ‘Nuclear,’ but Some Burdens Remain | Commentary”
Robert Rizzi and Jason Abel have written this Roll Call oped.
Category Archives: political parties
“Of Course Washington Is Broken: It Was Designed to Be”
“GOP Incumbents Lean on Donors to Beat Back Primary Foes”
“Sunday Dialogue: Two Parties, or More?”
“Politics to the Extreme: American Political Institutions in the Twenty-First Century”
Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly are editors of this new volume. Here is the table of contents:
Foreword; Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
Introduction; Scott A. Frisch and Sean Q Kelly
PART I: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF… Continue reading
“Tempers Flare as New Rules Strain Senate”
NYT on the post-nuclear Senate.
It actually does not seem as bad to me as the apocalyptic predictions, but we are only at the beginning.
And who knows if Republicans will blow up the rest of the filibuster when they… Continue reading
“Senate’s Long Weekends May be First Filibuster Casualty”
“First on CNN: Republicans moving to overhaul 2016 primary process”
CNN:
A handful of Republican Party officials is quietly advancing a new batch of rules aimed at streamlining a chaotic presidential nominating process that many party insiders viewed as damaging to the their campaign for the White House in… Continue reading
“Can Congress Be Saved? Eight ideas for cleaning up the mess on Capitol Hill”
Ornstein and Mann in Politico Magazine.
“Senate approves Patricia Millett for D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals”
Politico: “The Senate GOP plans to huddle on strategy in a post-nuclear option world on Tuesday at lunchtime.”