🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Very excited to share a new project I've been working on. MCs have a statistically detectable preference for enforcing the separation of powers, but it is rarely big enough to affect their roll call vote choices. Very early project - open to all feedback!

Nobody would have appreciated the SALT deduction fight as much as former Rules Chair Claude Pepper (D-FL).

When I first ran for the US House my Dem opponent was the mayor of Hamilton, OH. George Wendt was his brother-in-law. George went on a late night TV show and said some tough things about his bro in-laws's opponent, confusing me with someone else. He called later to apologize and

TWO manager's amendments. Going to be a huge ratings day for C-SPAN.

You know who really hated Waxman-Markey? Majority party members from swing districts.

1974: Unsurprisingly, Rep. H.R. Gross (R-IA) wasn't impressed with the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act, suggesting it was a "gimmick" that wouldn't solve deficit spending problems. Gross was one of six House no votes on the conference report.

I don't understand people who don't love Congress.

📢 New in Legislative Studies Quarterly! "Wealth and Policymaking in the U.S. House of Representatives" by Darrian Stacy (U.S. Naval Academy) #Congress #PoliSci 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

My favorite presidential trivia is over. John Tyler, our 10th president, served from 1841-1845. Until this past weekend, he had a LIVING grandson. Tyler was 63 when he had a son named Lyon Lyon was 75 when he had a son named Harrison Harrison was 96 when he died a few days ago

My 8yo to her friend: "That youtube song is pretty good but have you heard the [Wreck of] the Edmund Fitzgerald?" I finally feel like I earned that "#1 dad" mug.

This is another thing that hasn't gotten better since 1974...

If JD Scholten beats the odds and #IAsen Joni Ernst, it’ll be a windfall for Democrats in the Congressional Baseball Game. He’s spent the last two years pitching in Dutch professional baseball and for the indy team the Sioux City Explorers.

It sounds counterintuitive but Congress should invest in itself *more* if it wants to better oversee, control, and even downsize executive branch agencies. Good reporting by Justin Papp

Today's Rolling Stone article by Douglas Lucas on the Republican congressional effort to pass the Reorganizing Government Act includes some thoughts from me about the history of presidential reorganization authority. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

This is J.D. Rockefeller-William McKinley all over again.