By Phil Eskeland We have now completed six debates among the candidates vying to become the next president of the United States – four Republican and two Democrat debates. There will be three more debates – possibly four – before the first votes are cast in Iowa to select the presidential nominees to represent the…
November 20, 2015
By Phil Eskeland This was a very interesting week in Washington – three seminal events happened (no, the visit of Prince Harry doesn’t count) that were linked in some fashion to the surprise resignation of House Speaker John Boehner announced last month. First, on October 26th, the House of Representatives reauthorized a little known agency…
October 31, 2015
By Phil Eskeland Yesterday, for just the fifth time in his tenure, President Barack Obama took the highly unusual step of vetoing a bill that passed the normally grid-locked Congress. This time, he vetoed the annual defense authorization bill, one of the bills that must pass Congress each year in order to give defense policy…
October 23, 2015
By Phil Eskeland With Washington still abuzz from recent visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping, His Holiness the Pope, a few royals from Spain and Sweden, and the resignation of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, it is important for Washington to focus on the critical upcoming summit meeting between President Barack Obama…