A new Congress has been officially sworn in, but given that the very first bill proposed was Michelle Bachmann’s latest attempt to repeal Obamacare, it is understandably hard to be optimistic that the 113th Congress will be all that much better than the 112th. With a Democrat-dominated Senate and a conservative-controlled House, it seems that gridlock and partisan divisions may, unfortunately, continue to be defining features of the (in)actions of this session of Congress. There are, however, some promising signs. If nothing else, it is no longer an election year, so legislators should have more time to actually legislate. John Avlon of The Daily Beast also argues that the era of Tea Party obstructionism might be over, as whereas the 2010 Congress “was elected by a narrow but intense slice of the electorate—the anti-Obama, recession-fueled rage of the 2010 midterm election landslide,” this session was elected by a broader, more …
House Science Committee Just Isn’t That Smart
How some consider party lines to be more important than facts.