Politics

The Senate filibuster emerged in the 1800s and has evolved over time.  It originally made the Senate a more deliberative body, but a change in 1975 has made it less deliberative.

Leaders on the Hill, in industry and some in public health praised Trump's pick of Gottlieb — a former FDA and CMS official, who's also a physician and a prominent health policy commentator — to run the agency. "The reason I voted through my objections with Trump is that a presidential election selects a team, not one person," said Tom Giovanetti, head of the conservative Institute of Policy Innovation. "Scott Gottlieb is another example."

Republicans are getting perilously close to losing the momentum they had and will need to repeal and replace Obamacare.

“But the reason Obama was hit with so many more unanimous decisions was because he went rogue early on, asking his staff to look for novel theories that would allow him to move forward with implementing his agenda,” writes Merrill Matthews for Rare. “And if that meant twisting the Constitution—and basic logic—to get it, so what?”

If Trump does not respond firmly, he will permanently compromise his ability to manage the mammoth entity for which he is now responsible.

The public seems unconcerned about Obama claims that Russians hacked the U.S. election because they have been lied to so often by this administration that they no longer believe what it says.

It is time for Congress to reinforce the limits imposed on executive power while preserving the power of the people’s branch of government.

It is important that much of Obama's legacy be repealed—for the sake of the U.S. Constitution.

It’s time to permanently rein in the FCC’s scope and authority by passing laws that limit its powers.

After eight years of silence and complicity in President Obama's executive overreach, in the last few days the Left has discovered a new respect for the Constitution's separation of powers and system of checks and balances.