Ike's Anvil ArchiveAugust Umholtz With Congressional midterms now just weeks away it is likely that far fewer members of Congress will lose their seats that would normally be expected. With Congress’s approval rating at around 14%, the lowest before an election since 1974, this fact seems shocking.[1] There are countless reasons why we are seeing so many […]
Nicole Giles ’15 Women in Leadership New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has spent most of the last year in a major fight over how the U.S. military deals with cases of sexual assault. The Congresswoman has recently announced that the next issue she plans to tackle is one of rising concern in this country: sexual […]
Audrey Bowler ’16 Inside Politics Immigration reform has loomed large on the American public policy stage in recent months; however, progress has been stalled in the House of Representatives as the Republican Party struggles to incorporate the concept of immigration policy into their party platform without compromising key ideals. Sixteen months after losing the White […]
Kevin Bardin ’15 Inside Politics An olive branch has been offered and if accepted by the necessary majority, the American public may have some of its faith in the Senate restored. The hope is that this week a bipartisan bill will be proposed before the Senate and will receive the needed votes to pass which […]
Sarah Cardwell On March 11th the Environmental Leaders adjourned to Capitol Hill to meet with Danielle Beck, a Republican congressional staffer for third-term Congressman Tom Rooney representing the seventeenth district of Florida. Ms. Beck, originally from Plymouth, Massachusetts, initially came to DC as a student at The Catholic University of America with the intention to […]
Casey Mensinger, ‘15 The next key conversation in Congress is discussion of President Obama’s new budget plan, which he is presenting on Wednesday. This budget plan may be a subject of controversy for both Democrats and Republicans, as Obama is departing from the usual annual budget reform most presidents pass. Specifically, the President takes the risk of […]
Blake Chiappetta, ‘16 Throughout the past two weeks, controversy has risen out of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Threats concerning both South Korea and the United States have erupted from North Korea. The most notable threat occurred when North Korea announced that they intend to restart their nuclear facility, with the prospect of creating […]
Drew Hoppes, ‘13 The boundaries have been set. The debate on budget implementation raged on in Washington last week as the pilot budgets by both parties were revealed. The debate and the media coverage that followed served as a perfect example of the polarization of politics and the media. Each party chastised the other for […]
Bethany Foxx ‘16 The third month of 2013 brought sequestration and marked another occasion, much like the fiscal cliff, in which the federal government has been unable to come to a decision about the federal budget or the proposed budget cuts to address the running deficit. The sequester is a set of federal spending cuts […]
Shannon Brobst, ’15 On March 1, sequestration will take place if the Democrats and Republicans do not come to an agreement. According to the article “Hard Budget Realities as Agencies Prepare to Detail Reductions” by Jonathan Weisman from the New York Times, sequestration will cut about $85 billion dollars from the federal government’s expenditures. The […]
