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

The newly constituted National Labor Relations Board may change several important labor-law rules through litigation, but whether it will be able to impose key provisions of the Employee Free Choice Act remains to be seen.

Every federal official has an obligation to act in line with the Constitution as he or she understands it. And that doesn't necessarily mean obeying Supreme Court decisions.

Nomination Forms Online brings together in one place all the questions appointees are asked.

Over the past four decades, the presidential appointments process has become increasingly lengthy and difficult.

Al Armendariz, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in the oil-rich Southwest region, resigned from his post, effective Monday. It’s the latest twist in the never-ending and increasingly ugly fracking fracas. A two-year old video had surfaced last week (and since pulled) featuring Armendariz comparing his “philosophy of enforcement” to...

The tension between Congress and the president is palpable, and nowhere is that more true than in the controversy over recess appointments.

The American Enterprise Summer Institute brings together 25 select college undergraduates for an opportunity unlike any other in Washington: a monthlong, fully-funded experience debating ideas about liberty and free enterprise and learning the principles and methods of public policy analysis.