First Featured In The Washington Examiner Less than two miles from the Capitol building sits the brand new Audi Field. Home of the D.C. United soccer team, the new stadium … READ MORE
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House Passes Bill to Create 8 Year, $3 Million Party Planning Committee
UPDATE: This post originally ran in June 2018 after the House passed the Route 66 Centennial Commission Act (H.R. 66) by voice vote. The bill did not pass the Senate … READ MORE
Immigration Fiasco Shows Careerism is the Enemy of Compromise
Common Sense 2.0 is a series by former Senator Tom Coburn that will look at modern issues through a first principles lens. The debate about immigration is an open wound in … READ MORE
Losers of Trade Wars and Congress’s Fight Over Trade Authority
The recent G7 summit was memorable for a lot of headline-grabbing quotations, but the most notable event was President Trump’s feud with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Taking to Twitter, … READ MORE
NEA Funding and the Senate’s Glass Case of Emotion
If there’s one thing you can always count on when it comes to government, it’s Congress doing the wrong thing all the time even when attempting to do the right … READ MORE
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Rescissions?
Yesterday, the Senate failed to move forward with the Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act (H.R. 3), a package of $15.4 billion in rescissions from the Trump Administration. … READ MORE
The Case For Conflict
It is familiar to hear that the cause of modern-day gridlock in our politics is the result of too much conflict spurred on by stubbornly ideological politicians of both parties. … READ MORE
A Case Study On Why Government Spending Grows Every Year
With minimal exceptions, government spending has continued to steadily climb regardless of which party is in charge. Two votes and an ongoing discussion on Capitol Hill shed light on why … READ MORE