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24 Sep 2018, 2:00 pm
  Both the House and Senate have passed different versions of reform legislation (H.R. 4924 and S. 2952, respectively) but the House bill is superior. [read post]
22 Sep 2018, 4:43 am by Kelsey Farish
As for next steps, the MMA must now go to the lower house for approval. [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 2:00 pm by Randy Barnett
And, of course, Madison's notes and the history of that shows all the compromises that were reached – probably the most famous compromise is the compromise that allows for representation according to population in the House, representation according to state in the Senate, the Connecticut compromise, as it's often referred to. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 1:48 pm by David Super
Supreme Court’s one-person-one-votedecisionsof the 1960s made our country more democratic by requiring districts of equal size where population is the basis for representation. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 6:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Paul Mitchell (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and all other Ways and Means Committee Republicans, H.R. 6757, the bill enjoys strong support among House Republicans and President Trump. [read post]
11 Sep 2018, 9:50 am by Randy Barnett
And, of course, Madison's notes and the history of that shows all the compromises that were reached – probably the most famous compromise is the compromise that allows for representation according to population in the House, representation according to state in the Senate, the Connecticut compromise, as it's often referred to. [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Republicans credit the continuing strong economic performance of the US economy to the TCJA. [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 8:03 am by Joy Waltemath
The federal district court in D.C. concluded that many of the challenged provisions effectively reduced the scope of the right to bargain collectively as Congress has crafted it by enacting the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Act (FSLMRS), or impaired the ability of agency officials to bargain in good faith as Congress has directed. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 1:29 pm by Ilya Somin
While there are, technically, three different methods of amendment, only one of them has ever been effectively used, and it requires the approval of two-thirds of both houses of Congress, and three-fourths of state legislatures. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 3:00 pm
This total population count is used to allocate funding for various federal programs and to apportion representation in Congress, the Electoral College, and within state legislatures. [read post]
24 Jul 2018, 8:00 am by Bob Bauer
The Standard on Timing The Justice Department inspector general's report on the handling of the Clinton email matter sharply criticized James Comey’s notification to Congress of the October 2016 resumption of the Clinton email investigation. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 10:37 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
What may be more surprising to many is the intensity of the ongoing efforts in Congress to try to pass reform over the summer when many members of the House and Senate face tightly contested races in November. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 3:19 am by NCC Staff
By 1908, twenty-eight of the forty-five states used the Oregon System or some other form of direct elections. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 4:18 am by SHG
Her issue isn’t with fraud, but with using the law to target individuals based on “race, religion, or national origin, as it seems very likely to do,” and suggests that lawyers working for the government enforcing laws enacted by Congress risk ethical violations. [read post]
4 Jul 2018, 2:05 pm
  It might be useful, now, to re-consider those facts, the acts, the relations,  to which the great principles of the Declaration of Independence were meant to give meaning and suggest action. [read post]
2 Jul 2018, 4:00 am by Eric Turkewitz
Each year I’ve used July 2nd as jury celebration day, as this is the day that the Continental Congress voted to liberate the Colonies from the Crown. [read post]