Public Policy

Life seldom fails to humble us. Events strip bare the illusions of certainty and control that ground our aspirations, forcing us to check in with our priorities and the deeper meaning of our purpose. Such is the case for me with the senseless shoo…

Former Nevada GOP chair Sue Lowden said she would only consider a 2012 Senate race if Sen. John Ensign bowed out and Rep. Dean Heller decided against a run. Asked on MSNBC's Hardball Friday evening about her prospects in a GOP primary, Lowden ca…

The opening of the new Congress with a reading of the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives has triggered some angry reactions on the left, but it wasn’t intended just as a criticism of them. The GOP leadership was also i…

While  former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum has been hinting at a presidential run, a new poll from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling shows he’s currently the best hope for Pennsylvania Republicans hoping to defeat Democrat Sen…

Connolly said the notion that Federal Government is over sized is misplaced. "Facts be damned: There's a lot of Rhetoric on the other side about the growth of the federal Workforce, but it's about the size it was under the first Presi…

Re: "Lessons from '94: It's D-Day against the National Debt," Jan. 5 Sen. Tom Coburn's, R-Okla., excellent piece makes many arguments that are all valid and correct. However, there is one vital piece of information he neglected to mention, which c…

A poll released Thursday found John Ensign (R-Nev.), who has undergone multiple ethics investigations over the past two years, could face an uphill battle if he aims to keep his Senate seat in 2012. The poll, conducted by the Democratic firm Pub…

After much hullabaloo, the 112th Congress kicked off its second day as promised: by reading the Constitution aloud on the House floor for the first time ever, per a chamber historian. Except not all of it. The Bipartisan recitation omitted several…