Outside the Beltway

Ted Cruz continues to act as if he hasn’t learned his lessons from the shutdown debacle

The likelihood of any action on gun control in 2014 is extremely limited

There’s a potentially fatal legal argument looming out there for the PPACA.

No person has been elected Senator in a second state after serving as Senator in another, but Scott Brown seems set to give it a try.

No previously published works have entered the US Public Domain since 1978. And none are scheduled to enter until 1923. So what are we missing?

Time to watch a bit of true American exceptionalism in action.

In an ordinary post-recession world, we wouldn’t need to talk about extended unemployment benefits, but times are far from ordinary.

Last night, Speaker John Boehner showed that he can beat the Tea Party wing of the Caucus he heads. That has important consequences for the future.

A budget deal has been reached, now it has to get through both Chambers of Congress.

Congressman Steve Stockman’s primary challenge of Senator John Cornyn could be a big deal, or, more likely, it could be a dud.

Democracy was nice while it lasted.

The 7 seats most likely to switch parties are held by Democrats.

Dana Milbank offers a nonsensical reason for denying our youth the freedom to choose their own path.

Some Members of Congress are talking about pushing a bill imposing new sanction on Iran despite the deal reached in Geneva yesterday.

The GOP seems to be shifting strategy on the Affordable Care Act.

Yesterday’s change to the filibuster rule is likely to have little impact outside the beltway and the political chattering class.

It wasn’t a Thermonuclear move, more like something the size of Hiroshima, but today the Senate took an historic move nonetheless.

Are we headed for another Federal Government shutdown, or will Congress actually do its job this time?

After the GOP blocked a series of Obama judicial nominees, Democrats are again threatening to go nuclear on filibuster reform.

The Junior Senator from Kentucky does some re-writing of history.

The Imperial Presidency didn’t start with Barack Obama, but his PPACA “fix” does much to expand it into questionable new territory.

A contrite President Obama offered a “fix” for one of the biggest problems that the PPACA has created.

Congressional Democrats are not very pleased with the White House right now.

Once again, pretty much everybody hates Congress. However, it’s unclear if that will matter come Election Day.

Amazon’s new deal with the USPS offers a way out of the agency’s problems if only Congress would give up its last bit of control.

When it comes to the unfolding conflict inside the GOP, Mitch McConnell seems to have fired an opening shot.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act passed the Senate yesterday but it’s unlikely to go much further.