Export-related jobs are a huge and important driver of the U.S. economy, and the record of the Ex-Im Bank is clear: Using private funds and with minimal exposure to taxpayers, it has been a major driver of U.S. exports and a driver of jobs and corporate profits in the United States.

If ever we need evidence of ideology run rampant, the House vote to eliminate the annual American Community Survey and the Economic Census to provide basic information on the state of businesses and industries in the country and data used for generating quarterly gross domestic product estimates is exhibit A.

If Democrats do win the House, a bitter internecine battle can only hurt how they govern.

The Democrats have fallen short of their goal of an open Congress with a restored order and a real deliberative process.

Why does the new Democrat majority in the House of Representatives lack discipline?

A shift of a handful of seats in a House election is usually no big deal, but in the 108th Congress it is meaningful.

Unless politicians from both sides get their acts together, the recent voting conflict in the U.S. House of Representatives is bad news for the nation.

It is easy to imagine the Democrats winning the House, and it"s plausible to imagine Democrats winning the Senate. But it is not easy to imagine them winning substantial majorities in either chamber.