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Michael Thorning

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Democracy, Congress, Institutions, Elections. Director @BPC_Bipartisan. Fmr @SenatorTomUdall. @UNM Alum. 🏳️‍🌈 Thoughts=my own, RTs≠endorsements. he/him

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🚨Bipartisan Policy Center’s latest: a tariff revenue tracker, updated with Daily Treasury Statements (the gift that keeps on giving). From Andrew Lautz, Caleb Quakenbush, and me. Come for the charts, stay for the other charts.

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Why does the Senate need a parliamentarian? Don't senators know how the Senate should work? Does the parliamentarian have the power to dictate procedure, overriding the will of the senators? Or is she simply a reference for senators who have misplaced their copy of Robert's

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Marco Rubio was the lead Senate sponsor of WPS. Kristi Noem was the lead House sponsor. And Mike Waltz chaired the House’s WPS caucus.

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🚨Key update today on government funding pauses & how the GAO is investigating potential impoundments: “We have now 39 different investigations underway. We are trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” US

🚨Key update today on government funding pauses & how the GAO is investigating potential impoundments: “We have now 39 different investigations underway. We are trying to get the information from the agencies about what their legal position is for not expending the money,” US
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1/ Yesterday, Judge Royce Lamberth (D.D.C., a Reagan appointee), enjoined the Trump administration to disburse congressionally appropriated funds for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He was not amused by the admin's attempt to decide the issue through inaction after an earlier

1/ Yesterday, Judge Royce Lamberth (D.D.C., a Reagan appointee), enjoined the Trump administration to disburse congressionally appropriated funds for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 
He was not amused by the admin's attempt to decide the issue through inaction after an earlier
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Isn’t it kinda weird that the people carping about the left being obsessed with race have had basically one reaction (play to race!) to a member of Congress doing something that has nothing to do with race ?

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Thrilled to see this in (digital) print! In this paper -- now published at Legislative Studies Quarterly -- I find that members of Congress who 1) spend more of their budget and 2) invest more of their resources in legislative staff are more productive lawmakers. 1/

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"I see the decline of a Congress that legislates as a serious constitutional crisis that anybody who believes in republican government should be concerned... So I tend not to see this as just a neutral change. I see it as a serious constitutional concern." npr.org/2025/04/30/g-s…

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People often think it doesn’t matter what Congress thinks about the National Security Advisor because they are not Senate confirmed. Here’s where that goes wrong. Congress will judge the credibility of the administration on national security matters based on the personnel. To

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Important insight. Our leaders aren't old because they entrench themselves for a long time. Our leaders are old because that's who voters elect.

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Kinda weird how “democracy” justifies everything one’s own side does but not the actions of the legitimately elected opposition. It’s almost like an appeal to democracy to justify an action is not sufficient to overcome some set of fundamental rights…

Kinda weird how “democracy” justifies everything one’s own side does but not the actions of the legitimately elected opposition. 

It’s almost like an appeal to democracy to justify an action is not sufficient to overcome some set of fundamental rights…