Miscellaneous Musings

Things were going well for the Democrats.  The federal  shutdown was grinding on.  Trump and the MAGA Republicans were getting all the blame...

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson faced his first test, and he apparently failed. He wanted a vote on a continuing resolution to avoid a shutd...

It looks like the federal government is about to be shut down by shadow Speaker Donald Trump to close down federal courts in which he is bei...

Hey, Paul! Am I referring to Mr. Paul of the Senate or Mr. Ryan, Speaker of the House?  Both, actually.  The Senate worked out a bipartis...

The shutdown is over, and Congress managed to come up with a deal over the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) issue without invol...

There are no winners here. The federal government has just shut down, per a failed Senate vote on a continuing resolution passed by the H...

I wrote last week about the end of Net neutrality as if it were inevitable, and it probably is. But maybe I'm wrong. The only thing ...

Republican Chris Christie, overseeing his last state budget as governor of New Jersey, triggered a shutdown on July 1 when he failed to get...

President Obama and congressional Democrats have acquiesced to all sorts of demands from House Republicans to cut spending, but Speaker Joh...