Selected resources, content, and reports AGI has developed to help make sense of the legislative branch and offer reform ideas.
Featured First Branch forecast posts
Posts that demonstrate how we think about Congress and the possibilities for change
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi build her success on decades of power consolidation in her office: but we can’t ignore the consequences of that consolidation now. A quiet government shutdown started once Russell Vought took over OMB. We explained how his assault on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse should be the core issue of the shutdown.Using data we’ve gathered for years, we sound the alarm that House appropriators were poised to gut the Government Accountability Office and hinder the Congressional Research Service, undermining legislative branch knowledge-gathering and independence. We examined the constitutional, statutory, and institutional questions raised by the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over leadership positions at the Library of Congress, a legislative branch agency, and how it represented an attack on congressional independence. We offer ten bills Congress should insist be part of any deal to fend off a White House power grab
