Even though the House of Representatives has now passed an historic intelligence reform bill, additional steps still need to be taken to make America more safe and secure in the future.

The declining cost and rising availability of weapons of mass destruction may make terrorists even more dangerous in the future.

In The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Oxford University Press, 2006), authors Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann suggest that over the past fifteen years, Congress has seen the collapse of the deliberative process, the erosion of the regular...

Is former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) the straw that broke the elephant"s back?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi had effectively lost control of the House, so she decided to shut it down and let Democrats go home and try to salvage their seats, possibly ending her career as House speaker with abrupt defeat.

Please join the Continuity of Government Commission on Wednesday, October 16, at the Brookings Institution for our second, and final meeting. The Continuity of Government Commission was established to make recommendations to ensure the continuity of our three branches of government after a terrorist attack.

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AEI and the Brookings Institution announce the Continuity of Government Commission. This blue ribbon commission will study and make recommendations for the continuity of our governmental institutions in the event of a catastrophic attack. September 11 raised the possibility that foreign enemies might seriously disrupt...

The Senate bill's abortion language is not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's only problem, rather, it is whether there are enough votes to pass the Senate's health care bill.