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

Yesterday, hundred of new laws took effect in Texas. Grits for Beakfast breaks them down .

Attention is being focused on a recently established interest group, the American Legislative Exchange Council , which is helping coordinate...

Grits for Breakfast asks a very interesting question : Talk about cognitive dissonance: AP reports, "Bill would make hiring illegal w...

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

Some of you are diving into public opinion at the moment, and one of the simplistic points made in the lectures is that in a democracy, shif...

Story in the NYT . Background .

My 2302s will start discussing the judiciary soon, and this will among the recent decisions we will cover: From Slatest : Supreme Court Deal...

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

In response to Toyota's troubles, the executive and legislative branches have placed automobile safety on their relative agendas. In the...

We've had two tragedies in rapid succession involving standard carbon based energy industries, the coal mining disaster and the Off sho...

In 2302, when we discuss the behavior of individual legislators, we point out the tension that can exist between the needs of the constituen...

Critics argue that the health care bill passed by the house will not accomplish some of its goals, like cutting the cost of health care, bu...

Michael Lind thinks Congress should not enact comprehensive reforms of anything, including health care. The piecemeal approach works better....

Here are a few links summarizing the 81st Leg's regular session: - The Waco Tribune bemoans lost opportunities: Editorial: Legislature...

Any bill not debated on the floor in the Texas House is now unlikely to be placed on the House calendar and will not be considered this term...

I'm not sure what the precise differences are between the current legislation and the one debated in 2001, but here's the Senate Co...

I'll put up a few posts featuring the various arguments being made about who or what is responsible for the current financial crisis. Fi...

A little creativity goes a long way .