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The Congressional Budget Process Was Created to Solve 1970s Problems. Inadvertently It Caused New Problems
The Congressional Budget Process Was Created to Solve 1970s Problems. Inadvertently It Caused New Problems

"Anyone watching Congress trying to negotiate the U.S. budget might wonder who could possibly have designed such a process. Thanks ...

January 1, 2024
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Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform
Congress Overwhelmed: Congressional Capacity and Prospects for Reform

Diagnoses of the troubles of Congress usually focus on the three P’s: people, parties, and polarization. Tim LaPira, Lee Drutman, and ...

January 1, 2024
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The Case for a Congressional Regulation Office
The Case for a Congressional Regulation Office

"[T]his has become Congress's standard operating procedure for regulatory policy in recent years: Drop a daring and attractive-sounding mandate that ...

January 1, 2024
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How to Strengthen Congress
How to Strengthen Congress

"The executive branch's growth in size and influence means more concentrated power and less democratic accountability. Each new exercise of ...

January 1, 2024
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Congress and National Cohesion
Congress and National Cohesion

"Having a national, geographically representative legislature often feels inevitable, but in historical fact, it is an arrangement that arose in ...

January 1, 2024
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Congress Indispensable
Congress Indispensable

"Properly understood, however, Congress is no anachronism. The very features that would-be reformers find most exasperating — its messiness, balkiness, and cacophony — are ...

January 1, 2024
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