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Think Lobbying Doesn't Matter? Think Again

According to Politico, the first year of the Trump administration saw a decline in lobbying spending from the first year of the Obama...

Our Three-Party Government

Paul Ryan’s announcement that he is not running for re-election is a sudden – though not entirely shocking – capstone to an eventful...

Missing from the Infrastructure Plan: Resilience

As you might have heard, President Trump has released a “$1.5 trillion” infrastructure plan, a topic the President himself finds “sexy.”...

On Infrastructure, There's No Free Lunch

Since the 2016 election, the one issue on which most everyone has pinned their hopes for bipartisanship has been infrastructure....

Six Reasons Congress (Probably) Won’t Do Much This Year

As Congress comes back to town to start its 2018 session, the to-do list is long: preventing a government shutdown, dealing with the...