by Michael Leppert | Jan 11, 2024 | Politics/Government
Another government funding deadline looms in Washington on January 19, precisely two weeks before Groundhog Day. While this Congress has been the least productive in modern history, it has produced multiple versions of the shutdown dance, and other predictable jigs,...
by Michael Leppert | Dec 14, 2023 | Politics/Government
Last week, former House speaker Kevin McCarthy attended the New York Times’s DealBook event where he was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin. During their discussion, McCarthy reminisced about a striking observation he made during the 2019 State of the Union. “…I look...
by Michael Leppert | May 7, 2021 | Politics/Government
Have you ever heard of Margaret Chase Smith? She was a four-term, U.S. Representative (1940-1949) and then a four-term U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine. She is famous for a fifteen-minute speech she gave on the Senate floor in 1950 that came to be known as the...
