145 Hours to Federal Fiscal Year 2021: Historical Shutdowns and the Current Legislative Situation

Author's Notes: Tonight's post kicks off my first article on budget/fiscal policy! In line with this, I will be making several major aesthetic changes to this blog in the coming days. Most notably, I will add the budget/fiscal policy articles box on the home page, and update the other policy pages to include more recent articles. In addition, I will modify the main page menu bar by creating multiple drop-down menus, including one with links to my social media pages, and another with links to the pages listing articles by policy topic. In the end, it will help streamline the top third of this blog, improve navigation, and leave room on the main page menu bar for other future links. 

Converting CA's 2020 House "Jungle Primary" Results to "Regular Primary" Results

Author's Notes: I had this post in mind even before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg passed away this weekend at the age of 87. I want to iterate to everyone who reads and follows my blog that out of respect for the late justice, I will not immediately discuss or speculate about the political implications of her death (including the controversy over whether she should be replaced before the next Congress is seated), especially the implications for this year's elections. 

In addition, while randomly browsing 2020 primary election results, I realized that I neglected to mention Representative Yvette Clarke (D, NY-9)'s 2020 primary result on last Thursday's post providing a rundown of 2020's close House primary results. The final results showed her winning renomination by just under a 30% margin, thus qualifying this case for that post, as I sought to include all incumbents who won renomination by less than 30%. As such, I modified that page to reflect the addition.