H.R. 10 requires Congress to vote on the rules which unelected agency officials issue under vague mandates from Congress. This is the right way to find out which regulations the voters desire.

Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie try to convince congressional republicans it is time to tackle the tough decisions on the budget such as military spending and entitlements, will congressional republicans listen?

The late Dan Rostenkowski and Ted Stevens were far from perfect, but a damn sight better than the self-righteous ideologues and hyperambitious loudmouths who make up too many of today's best-known lawmakers.

Comings and goings in Congress are frequent occurrences,and twenty and thirty year Hill careers are no longer the norm in personal and committee offices.

Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it's down to blood rlatives and paid staff).

America is nearing a decisive moment.  Unless Congress acts to change current law, automatic sequestration cuts will slash future spending on national defense across-the-board by over $500 billion beginning early next year.

For eight years last decade, California had democracy. Then state legislatorsfixed the system to spare incumbents the inconvenience ofchallengers stepping in and taking their seats.

This is House budget week, and with it comes the strong possibility that Republican leaders will bow to the demands of their die-hards and try to alter the deal reached in the Budget Control Act last year that ended the impasse on the debt limit and set caps on discretionary domestic and defense spending.