Lawmaking does not just mean passing bills and creating new laws. It also means oversight and accountability, as well as ...

Changes brought by the Isle of Man's upper branch of parliament would "mitigate" some of the issues in a new local authority ...

Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior ...

Chicago aldermen came together to engage in the city’s budget process and assert their authority as a co-equal branch of government.

The GAO decisions led to the once relatively low-profile legislative branch agency to come under an unprecedented level of ...

The Roberts court has been an accomplice in the president’s blatant attempts to bypass the Constitution’s limits on his power.  Here’s how.

The Supreme Court's undertaking is oriented toward originalism. This often overlaps with Republican partisan outcomes – it doesn't always.

In this next session, we’re going to focus on things like energy cost and energy prices.  … We’re going to make it a little ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

A democracy is defined by its decision-making process, and not the ideology of its adopted social policies. Over the last ...

"Caseworkers are some of the best, well-connected congressional staffers because they see and hear everything that's going on on the ground," said Stewart.

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are growing dissatisfied with the ever-increasing power of the executive branch ...