Outside the Beltway

44 Republican Senators have already pledged to filibuster John Bryson’s nomination as Commerce secretary.

And the KosKids have the proof!

As Congress left town for the long weekend, the Senate Minority Leader threw a grenade into the budget negotiations.

The House of Representatives has voted 416-5 for a resolution prohibiting President Obama from sending ground troops to Libya

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants a full debate on the PATRIOT Act. What’s Congress so afraid of?

Should we worry about the deficit when funding “disaster relief”? Should we be funding “disaster relief” at all?

It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.

Voters in New York State may help move the budget debate on Capitol Hill.

The bungled politics of the Ryan plan.

The Obama Administration is offering an odd explanation for why it doesn’t need to comply with the War Powers Act.

It has now been 60 days since American involvement in Libya commenced. Congress has failed to act, and that’s their fault.

Wall Street says raise the debt ceiling. The Tea Party says no. What will the GOP do?

Once again, Congressional abdication has led to an Executive Branch power grab.

Rand Paul has borrowed a bad idea from the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Mike Wirth, in conjunction with Suzanne Cooper-Guasco, contributes this elaborate flowchart of the American legislative process titled “How Our Laws Are Made.”

The “debt ceiling” is phony, contrived, and needs to be eliminated.

As of today, the United States is legally barred from borrowing money to finance its operations. Thanks for nothing, Congress.

Republicans are playing politics with the National Debt. Please don’t tell me you’re shocked.

The 60 day deadline for Presidential discretion under the War Powers Act will expire next week. Congress won’t do anything about it.

Republicans seem to have realized that the Ryan Plan’s Medicare reforms aren’t going anywhere.

Congress is coming back to Washington and gas prices continue to rise. Expect a lot of demagoguery, but very little in the way of solutions.

There are signs that the Ryan Plan isn’t playing well with the public.

Contempt for Congress is an old American tradition. Unfortunately.