President Bush plans to press the Senate for movement on filling vacancies at the Federal Election Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Consumer Product Safety Commission, among others.  These agencies are issuing non-binding decisions and falling behind on their internal agendas because they can't put together a quorum of commissioners ...

One way to avoid big government is to stop hiring people, a strategy which the Bush Administration and Congress seem to have settled on.  As Madonna Lebling writes in the Washington Post, "Congress and the president [are] locked in a standoff over nominations" that has left TWELVE important federal regulatory ...

David Trachtenberg writes in the Christian Science Monitor about Voice of America's dull and often opinion-free editorials.  He says VOA and its parent organization, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, are missing an opportunity to help foreigners recognize America's nuances and appreciate our internal policy debates.  Read his opinion piece ...