Major Garrett is a veteran political journalist who currently serves as chief Washington correspondent for CBS News. He has held prominent roles at Fox News, National Journal, and CNN over a decades-long career covering national politics. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 1997 and 2003, writing on congressional politics, tax policy, and education reform.
IT'S NOT CLEAR whether the constitutional definition of "advice and consent" will become a casualty of Miguel Estrada's fight for a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the possibility is serious and sobering. In a 55-44 vote, Democrats last week defeated a Republican attempt to break…
VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S staunch, detailed, and defiant defense of the president's tax plan at the Chamber of Commerce last week was not an exercise in abstract "team dynamics." It was personal. Cheney and his staff had worked aggressively to beef up tax cuts and decimate federal aid to the states.…
Speaking of Bill Clinton's power to seduce: He is luring the GOP Congress into surrender on Medicare.
This fall, the nation will hear the opening shot in a battle over education. President Clinton will unveil a plan that will sound new, but that will, in fact, be the same, stale, statist approach that the education establishment has foisted on the taxpayers for more than a generation.
FOR MANY YEARS, CONSERVATIVES have hesitated to denounce the assaults on the First Amendment that go under the name of "campaignfinance reform." At the same time, they have not offered the public an adequate alternative to the Left's repeated attempts to limit political speech. Now they have their…
SOMETHING REFRESHING IS AFOOT in Minnesota. Republican governor Arne Carlson is in a knockdown-drag-out fight with the Democratic legislature over his plan to devote $ 150 million to tax deductions and credits for parents seeking alternatives to public education.
At the behest of Newt Gingrich, John Boehner asked a startling question at his regular Thursday Group meeting with key Republican constituency groups on March 13. How, the House Republican Conference chairman wanted to know, would the members of the group react if the House delayed consideration of…