Assessment of governing programs against the machinery available to enact them. Pieces separate measures achievable by executive action from those requiring legislation, price them against fiscal rules, and identify the veto points ahead. Read by legislative staff, lobbyists, journalists and researchers tracking implementation.
Examination of legislative programs: what has been promised, which measures need statute, what the budget permits, and where resistance will come.
Most legislation dies quietly in committee long before any floor vote, and the few rules that govern which bills survive explain almost everything about congressional power.
Alexandria Lucas