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After reciting the pledge of allegiance, the House is doing a quick quorum call to see which members are present. If all 434 lawmakers show up as expected, then Mike Johnson needs a majority of 218 ...

Three weeks ago I wrote about the Committee on Buildings meeting that aldermen Bernard Stone and Ray Suarez held on December 7–just the two of them. This had seemed like a pretty thin crowd for ...

In the latest edition of the Lazy Senate files, it’s time to dispel the myth that the 30-hour rule is the reason Democrats have been able to obstruct President Trump’s nominees. The first reason this ...

As senators shuffle in for the final quorum call at a little after 5 in the morning, a thought occurs to me: Isn’t this entire operation an exercise in child abuse? Every time the Senate reassembles, ...