Must-read: Matthew Yglesias: “2015: The Year Congress Started Working Again”
2015: The Year Congress Started Working Again: “The story of the 2015 legislating boom…
:…is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan decided to care less about presidential politics…. Making Obama look bad has stopped being a legislative priority…. None of the leading GOP contenders are particularly well-liked by the party’s congressional leaders, so there’s less interest in helping them out…. While competition for political office is zero-sum, actual public policy isn’t…