Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

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.

Dozens of ethics controversies involving members of the House and Senate have resulted in surprisingly few investigations over the past decade--and little substantive corrective action by the chambers’ ethics oversight committees. However, recent firestorms over alleged congressional misconduct have focused considerable media attention on these issues.

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We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.

While the House has made significant strides toward creating an independent outside entity to help get through its ethics storm, the Senate is unable to say the same.

Nancy Pelosi and John Boehner need to join together and put an end to damaging, out-of-control rhetoric.

Does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act violate the Constitution by vesting members of PCAOB with too much power?

Congress's ethical policy has failed to workwhen a member of Congress is indicted. In order to be effective, the ethical policy needs to be reformed.