Republican Representative John Culberson of Texas was first elected to Congress back in the year 2000. He’s had a decade to think things over and come up with some ideas. But John Culberson is still lingering in the mulling phase. He’s only introduced two bills in the 111th Congress: one a bill to congratulate the [...]
On his congressional web page, Georgia Democrat Sanford Bishop boasts that he “has authored a wide range of bills and resolutions.” In the sense that width is a measurement requiring two points, Bishop is technically correct. To date, there have been two and only two points of action for Sanford Bishop in the 111th Congress [...]
Yesterday we released our new report, “Call and Response,” which covers the extent of reciprocation in the House of Representatives in 2009. To measure reciprocation, we tabulated patterns of sponsorship and cosponsorship for the 4,412 substantive “H.R.” bills introduced to the House that year. A bill’s sponsor is the legislator whose office authors a bill [...]
I have to tell you in all honesty that until tonight, I thought Representative Lynn Westmoreland was a woman. Why is that? It’s not because I haven’t been paying attention to congressional affairs. In one form or another, I’ve been writing about the U.S. Congress and congressional legislation for over a decade. It’s not simply [...]
During congressional campaigns every two years, we often hear candidates, citizens and pundits calling for more “bipartisanship.” David Broder writes his more-bipartisanship-please column every three weeks or so for the Washington Post syndicate, getting freshly paid each time. If the Democrats and the Republicans would only work together, the thinking goes, something might just get [...]
Irregular Times reports today on the sponsorship (offering a bill for consideration) and cosponsorship (promoting a bill by signing one’s name) activity by members of the United States Senate in the years 2007-2008, offering figures for 98 Senators that range from a low of 22 bill (co)sponsorships to a high of 469 bill (co)sponsorships. See [...]
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