Author: BooMan

There is some weird stuff going on with filibuster reform that you can read about here. You may remember that we’ve been talking for a long time about a “nuclear option” or a “constitutional option”...

Do you get the feeling that the Republicans in Congress aren’t feeling a whole lot of urgency about getting the victims of Superstorm Sandy some relief? I hear that Boehner is going to get to it in a few days, perhaps with...

Reuters: Speaking after winning a “fiscal cliff” victory, President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to avoid a repeat of last year’s divisive fight with Congress over an extension of the nation’s borrowing...

For the first time in some of your lives, the House of Representatives just passed a bill that the majority of the majority party opposed. Ordinarily, such votes are not even allowed to happen. And, while technically this vote...

Here is some recent history, via Wikipedia: The majority of the majority is a governing principle (not a legal procedure) used by Republican Speakers of the House of Representatives since the mid-1990s to effectively limit the...