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The House at the End of an Era
Last week, I visited the home and library of Sam Rayburn, the longest serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, in Bonham, Texas, about an hour drive northeast of Dallas. Mr. Sam was a powerful speaker and his library smack in the mi...
IG Drop, AI Slop
OVERSIGHT
Congress established inspectors general in more than 70 federal agencies through legislation in 1978 in post-Watergate efforts to bolster legislative branch oversight of the executive branch. OIGs report to Congress as well as...
Interview: Cerin Lindgrensavage and Christie Wentworth
For this episode, I spoke with two experts in appropriations law who have worked in and out of government — Cerin Lindgrensavage of Protect Democracy and Christie Wentworth of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington — about Whi...
August Recess
MODERNIZATION
The next public meeting of the Congressional Data Task Force will be held on September 10 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET. No information about an in-person location is available at this time, but check the Legislative Branch Inno...
An Oversight Disappearance Mystery
For more than 80 years, the House Appropriations Committee hired a team of detailees from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Government Accountability Office, and other federal offices to search for waste, fraud, and abuse in government p...
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I'm the Executive Director of the American Governance Institute. I write the First Branch Forecast newsletter at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/.
Democracy, congressional reform. Writes the First Branch Forecast for the American Governance Institute.
Soren Dayton, Director of Governance at the Foundation for American Innovation, writes about politics, institutions, and meaning-making in a transforming world.
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