House Passes Bill (REINS Act) Requiring Every Significant Piece of Economic Regulation to Be Approved by Congress
Commentary here.
That’s a way to bring the rest of the government to a screeching halt, no?
Category Archives: legislation and legislatures
Litigation Anticipated on NC Voting Changes
The Charlotte Observer has this report on lawsuits anticipated after North Carolina’s Republican Governor Pat McCrory signs a sweeping election bill, as he’s expected to do later this month. Meanwhile, the Triangle Business Journal reports here on Democratic Attorney General… Continue reading
“Congress: Divided, discourteous _ taking a break”
AP’s David Espo: “The accomplishments are few, the chaos plentiful in the 113th Congress, a discourteous model of divided government now beginning a five-week break.”
More:
Legislation linking interest rates on student loans to the marketplace passed, and, too,… Continue reading
“Judging the (un)productivity of the 113th Congress”
“Leahy Eyes ‘Nuclear Option’ Threat to Confirm Judges”
“The Obligation of Members of Congress to Consider Constitutionality While Deliberating and Voting: The Deficiencies of House Rule XII and a Proposed Rule for the United States Senate”
Former Senator Russ Feingold has posted this draft on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Most scholarly attention on constitutional interpretation is focused on the judicial branch and the role of the judiciary in our system of separation of powers. Nonetheless… Continue reading
“Saboteurs in the Potato Salad”
Tim Egan:
Just now, a cell of several hundred people has been dispatched into the American summer, to picnics, town halls, radio stations, hospitals and Little League playing fields, with a mission to derail the economic recovery and drum up… Continue reading
“GOP Telegraphs Mass Filibuster Of Obama’s Top Judges”
“G.O.P. Rifts Lead Congress to Spending Impasse”
“When Congress Refuses to Govern”
Jonathan Capehart writes for WaPo’s PostPartisan, discussing, among other things, my empirical research, End of the Dialogue: Political Polarization, the Supreme Court and Congress.
“In Senate, Arm-Twisting and Vote-Changing Lead to a Confirmation”
Quote of the Day from Jonathan Bernstein
“It made for dramatic CSPAN-2 watching, at least until the long wait for the flight from North Dakota began.”
—Senate Deal Holds [on filibuster]