Ezra Klein Archive: Congress
Four ways to end the filibuster
Steve Pearlstein wants to bring the filibuster back to its first principles: Ensuring unlimited debate. His suggestion is to kill the filibuster but promise the minority that debate can continue until "a bill is passed or defeated or Senators...
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November 11, 2009; 3:43 PM ET |
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Can Congress control costs?
One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The...
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November 6, 2009; 5:17 PM ET |
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America's unusually democratic democracy
Political scientist Jonathan Bernstein has a good follow-up post to my comments on the unexpectedly decisive roles individual legislators play in the policy process. This, he says, is part of what makes America great. Our legislature (both Houses!) is...
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October 22, 2009; 5:30 PM ET |
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Don't Read The Bill!
The first amendment considered in the Senate Finance Committee's mark-up was Sen. Jim Bunning’s demand that the bill be converted into legislative language and the CBO take two to three weeks to render a full score before there's a...
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September 25, 2009; 6:00 PM ET |
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The Primacy of Congress
The problem with David Brooks's column today isn't that it's wrong on the specifics. It's not, really. It would be good if the health-care proposals on the table accorded more closely with the views of the most ambitious experts....
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September 4, 2009; 4:37 PM ET |
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Do Populous States Have Liberal Senators?
Earlier today, I posted a graph showing the ideology of a senator (ranked from 1-100, where "1" was the most conservative senator in the Senate) against the size of their state (ranked from 1 to 50, where "1" was the...
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August 10, 2009; 3:01 PM ET |
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