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ringwiss.bsky.social
🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇬🇧 He/him. Armchair parliamentarian. I type at 140 wpm.
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"This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today." This joke is basically just for @ringwiss.bsky.social.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Why not have a division, at least?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

A few old thoughts about Mitch McConnell. stevesnotes.substack.com/p/note-9-mcc...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We all have lapses where our memory fails us and we forget some complicated technical term, or have trouble recalling some difficult bit of jargon, like "triangle."

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

OK, I wrote a piece on what everyone seems to be talking about these days: ~~WHIGS!~~ www.processparty.org?p=277

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Much less enthusiastic today... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSb...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks *and* the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 4 days ago • 256 comments

Today's item: I ran through the options available to Senate Democrats on cabinet nominations and what they're actually doing. No, there's no magic button they're neglecting. (And seriously no, Tuberville didn't come up with one). goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/confirming...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

"The members were so excited that no business could be done" is not one you see often in parliamentary reporting :-P

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

When you doubt if the previous question is up to the job of cutting off amendments... @processparty.bsky.social Some time ago you questioned the ‘and on any (further) amendment thereto’ line that the House now includes in closed rules. Well, here’s the other side of that.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Officially, the third week of February in Canada is Kindness Week! Thanks, statute book! Govern yourselves accordingly :)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

ON THE BLOG: Should we be worried about the decline of parliamentary scrutiny? Ahead of a related Constitution Unit event next week, Meg Russell summarises her recent article in Public Law which crunches the numbers on parliamentary scrutiny over time.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

In principle, it should not have been in order to introduce that first bill. (It’s difficult to enforce this at the time of introduction, though.)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Fun fact: nondebatable ≠ nonfilibusterable. As far as I can tell, there’s no reason this couldn’t be done on a motion to proceed to a budget resolution or to a reconciliation bill.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It’s also going to be built on people regaining their sense of idealism. Empty cynicism is what got us into this mess—when you assume everyone is corrupt, you tolerate a lot more corruption. There’s nothing unrealistic or naive about expecting politicians to work for the public good.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

In light of the events of the last Congress, special rules intended to be subject to a discharge petition now have to be more specific.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment