the weaker party

The Dish flags a story that attempts to measure which pieces of major legislation over the past 100 years have been most controversial. Th...

From the National Journal, regarding last year's Congress .

C-Span video here . Is legislation adjusting the Espionage Act necessary to deal with the ease at which secrets can be made public? - Rea...

An example of how legislation can be stopped -- even though majorities support them -- by blocking bill form reaching the floor. - The Sen...

CNN breaks down what was cut :

From the NYT : A year ago, President Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of assuming that an economic recovery was under way. This we...

For this week's discussion on civil rights, the Leadership Conference on Civil Right's scorecard for the 111th Congress .

TNR says yes .

The House is waiting for Senate action on more than 420 bills  it has passed this session.

For my 2302s as we wrap our discussion of the legislative branch: NYT's Inside Congress page with its review of recent votes in thr Hous...

For a future discussion in 2302 about Congress: NYT has a list of the major legislation passed by the 111th Congress .

I've been driving through the Ozarks the past few day (I'm sitting in a motel in Hot Springs Ark at the moment) so I've no had t...

NYT story here . Initial analysis here . Click here for bill summary of the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 .

Financial regulatory reform passes the Senate . Andrew Sullivan has links that break the bill down . Graphics from the NYT .

upward .

That's the name given to the climate change bill introduced into the Senate by Liberman and Kerry. Ezra Klein argues that recent events ...

From Politico, a story about a debate regarding where the idea emerged that opposition to financial aid reform is best done by framing it as...

Story in the National Journal . Democrats believe that even if the bill does not pass this session, the issue will help split the Republica...

The NYT covers the HCR vote , as well as the vote on the Student Loan bill . This was the bill removed from the reconciliated health care...

For my 2301's, as we begin to discuss political parties: Political science types tend to argue that parties must provide clear alternati...