Richard A. Arenberg

Andy Warhol famously asked, “Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” Last month, the Republican House of...

The time is right. Perhaps filibuster reform is within reach. Republicans are frustrated by the Democrats’ use of the filibuster to...

In November of 2013, Senate Democrats, then in the majority, led by Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and goaded by the Republicans, made an...

As the Senate returns after Labor Day from its August recess, there is little sign that the “Filibuster Summer” will not become the...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell once described the “game of chicken” as “a sport … practiced by some youthful degenerates.” While I...

Suddenly, the presidential campaign season has descended on the Senate filibuster reform debate. A recent magazine headline declared,...

American humorist Will Rogers once quipped, “This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets...

President Obama went before the Congress last month to deliver his State of the Union address. It has become the norm in the...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Newscom) Taken together,...

An era has ended. The last of the “Watergate Babies” has left the Congress. The nickname was applied to the class of House Democratic...

Last November, Senate Democrats used a parliamentary ploy we know as the “nuclear option” to circumvent Senate filibuster rules to permit...

Last month, the U.S. Senate defeated a bill that would have approved construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which is...

Now that the GOP has swept into control of the Congress, it is immediately confronted with familiar realities. Because of the Senate...