Friday, June 25, 2010

Good Congress, Bad Congress







    My suggestion is that next time you see a good one, you link to it.

  2. What the first guy said. I was going to share such a thing on the Facebooks, since my conservative friends thing the Dems are plotting a fascist takeover. It'd be useful to show that if it's indeed a coup, it's a really really boring one.

  3. By the time I posted, the conference was over. C-SPAN (it's has links to it, in four parts, on their home page right now...they also have made their complete archives available online, so you can poke around and find stuff. Got to the video library tab, and then select "Congressional committees" instead of "all categories" and look for markups (and there has to be a better way to search, but I'm not seeing it right now).

  4. At this point, is watching a conference committee like watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace--just a throw-back to an old world that really doesn't exist anymore?

    I don't mean comity and Congress getting work done, I mean the use of a conference committee!

  5. Matt,

    Yes, except that this was a real, honest-to-goodness conference committee. First one in some time. Maybe it'll be the last one, but who knows -- maybe they'll find that it works, and they'll start doing it more often.

    Of course, most of the hard bargaining took place away from the cameras, which is just gonna happen any time there's a purely public process, and is certainly fine with me. But I do think this is better than the GOP-era closed-room-plus-ratify conferences, or the Dem-era closed-room-plus-pingpong version.



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