Here is another good news/bad news column about the 112th Congress.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will address past failures of Democrats and Republicans alike and how to reform the House.

John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi should step in before this Waters embarrassment gets worse and hits a House that is already at a nadir in terms of public approval.

Uncertainty regarding debates over the debt limit still remains. Endgame negotiations are nothing new in Washington, but the circumstances under which they are being played is different than before.

The permanent campaign mindset dominates politics in Congress right now. And it does not bode well for finding solutions to problems.

**Please note that this event was held at the Hart Senate Office Building**

On April 30, distinguished public officials and scholars from the University of Pennsylvania, the Brookings Institution, and AEI will explore how incivility affects our political system and our ability to tackle the problems of twenty-first-century life. ...

Recent use of Motions to Recommit by House Republicans demonstrates that this tool has become a way for the minority party to practice politics rather than raise legitimate policy differences.

Holding hostage the debt ceiling--meaning the full faith and credit of the United States to pay obligations incurred in the past by this Congress and its predecessors--threatening to take the risk of creating a depression or at least a serious recession unless all one's demands are met, is simply reckless.