Outside the Beltway

Its like déjà vu all over again.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around any more.

A second Republican Speaker has reached across the aisle to avert a government shutdown.

A policy-leaning wing and a political-leaning wing make for an unworkable coalition.

We won’t have Kevin to kick around anymore.

Republicans killed their parents and demanding mercy for being orphaned.

Not of governance.

Lack of control of label is lack of control, ultimately, of a party.

Michigan Congressman Justin Amash has quit a group he helped found nine years ago after they voted to condemn him for advocating for the President’s impeachment.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other firebrands aren’t steering the ship. Yet.

New York State seems likely to join the list of states where marijuana has been legalized sometime next year.

Nancy Pelosi won a key vote yesterday on the road to returning as Speaker of the House again in January.

Who’s John Delaney? Well, he’s a Congressman from Maryland who’s apparently running for President.

President Trump is now claiming he will end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants via Executive Order. He clearly lacks the authority to do this.

One month before voters in several states head to the polls to vote on legalization referendums, a new poll shows that public support for legalization remains at record high levels.

We should take Congressional officers out of the line of succession.

Another step forward in the seemingly unstoppable movement toward nationwide legalization.

Recent reports have indicated that doubts are growing about the wisdom of keeping California Democrat Nancy Pelosi at the top of House Leadership.

The Garden State has put a hold on marijuana prosecutions in anticipation of full legalization by the end of the year.

Jim Jordan, who heads the powerful House Freedom Caucus, is being accused of ignoring reports of sexual abuse by a team doctor while he was a coach at The Ohio State University.

In November, Michigan voters will be able to make their state the tenth state to legalize marijuana. This is just the latest step in what seems to be an irreversible trend.

There is a frustration and a growing sense that the American political system is illegitimate.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans support marijuana legalization according to a new poll.

John Boehner is now pro-weed. The world just keeps getting weirder, man.

Paul Ryan won’t be running for re-election this year, opening up both a Congressional seat and a leadership spot.

Trump’s tariff plan isn’t going over well in farm country, and that could cause problems for the GOP in November.

The Tea Party is dead, but it was never really alive to begin with.

It’s been seven years since Congress eliminated earmarking, and what we’ve seen has provided good evidence for the argument that it should never have been eliminated.

It’s been two years since John Boehner stepped down as Speaker, and he’s got a few things to say about his former colleagues and the state of American politics.

House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.

Five months after becoming Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan seems to be running into some of the same difficulties that John Boehner did.

Conservatives are doing all they can to make sure Merrick Garland does not get either a hearing or a vote in the Senate, and it’s working.

The effort to stop Donald Trump seems likely to set off a civil war inside the Republican Party.

The final spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year sailed through Congress today, marking the end of a very successful first two months in office for Speaker Paul Ryan

A former staffer for the House Select Committee investigation the attack in Benghazi is suing the Committee for improper employment practices, and Chairman Trey Gowdy for defamation.

Democrat John Bel Edwards scored an easy victory over Senator David Vitter last night in Louisiana, and Vitter announced that he’d be leaving the Senate after his term is up.

With little actual debate and despite Paul Ryan’s promise of a return to ‘regular order,’ the House has passed a hastily drafted bill in response to the largely fear-based response to Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.

A new Gallup poll shows public approval of Congress once again approaching historic lows, but it means far less than anyone thinks.

Paul Ryan’s admission that immigration reform will not happen as long as Barack Obama is President simply reflects the reality of immigration politics in Congress.

As expected, the Senate easily passed the two-year budget deal early this morning.

Marco Rubio is taking heat for missing a lot of Senate votes since he started running for President, but he’s not really any worse than other legislators who have run for President.

Compromise is simply necessary for the country to function.

Paul Ryan is blasting the process that led to the new budget deal between the GOP and the White House, but one suspects he’s secretly quite pleased with the fact that it makes his job-to-be a lot easier.

Congress and the White House have reached a tentative deal on the budget and debt ceiling that promises to make Paul Ryan’s initial months as Speaker a lot easier.

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

With the voting now seemingly a mere formality, the question becomes what kind of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will become.

With the top conservative caucus in Congress acquiescing to his candidacy, Paul Ryan is largely certain to become the next Speaker of the House.