Laura Blessing

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Laura Blessing

Laura Blessing

@L_E_Blessing

Political scientist | Senior Fellow @GAIGeorgetown | Lecturer @McCourtSchool | Podcast: Congress, Two Beers In | Congress, parties, policy (esp tax & budget)

Katılım Ocak 2018
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Laura Blessing
Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
Delighted to have @MaxGhenis back to guest lecture for my class - using microsimulation models to show how policy affects benefits, benefit cliffs, and larger inequality trends. I love teaching McCourt’s public policy students: better data can help make better policy
Max Ghenis@MaxGhenis

>im giving a lecture at @L_E_Blessing's inequality class at georgetown. lets build a react app using the policyengine-us python package showing some topic that shows up in the syllabus. use the frontend-design plugin to make it look georgetowny Claude Code did pretty well!

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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
GAI’s December newsletter article, “American Scientific Research Depends on Congress” by @AdrianaBankston, has insights on how Congress built American scientific dominance, and the challenges it faced this year. gai.georgetown.edu/american-scien… Great to read as we take stock of 2025.
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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
New GAI “Congress Two Beers In” podcast out: a real pleasure having @JDRackey on to talk congressional primaries with @MattGlassman312, @joshHuder and me yesterday
J.D. Rackey@JDRackey

I had a blast joining @L_E_Blessing, @MattGlassman312, & @joshHuder to discuss my & @ThorningMichael’s recent @BPC_Bipartisan report on congressional primaries and their impacts on member behavior! Fun to be a guest on a pod I’ve long listened to! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/con…

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I met Elise Bean a decade ago when I worked for @RepLloydDoggett on an APSA CFP fellowship, as she was transitioning from Levin’s staff out of Congress- she was insanely smart, kind, accomplished, and a force for doing good. She will be missed.
Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy@Levin_Center

Yesterday, the @Levin_Center's Washington, D.C. director, Elise Bean, passed away, surrounded by her family. We feel this loss deeply. Elise was a friend, a mentor, a leader, and a dedicated public servant. No one can fill her shoes.💜 Official statement: levin-center.org/statement-on-t…

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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
New GAI “On the Hill” newsletter out: my two cents on Jimmy Carter. Carter is both more nuanced & more relevant to today than is usually emphasized: in many ways he presages & hurries the turn towards Reaganism. gai.georgetown.edu/signaling-the-…
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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
New podcast episode: @joshHuder @MattGlassman312 and I talk the election, incoming congressional leadership, nominations, potential reconciliation politics & tax policy. Honorable mention to @circlekdc for her “Gaetz-keeping” pun.
Josh Huder@joshHuder

New Congress, Two Beers In! Matt, Laura, and I discuss the election, Congress, recess appointments, leadership races, and even though a mic malfunctioned and Matt sounds like he’s in a phone booth, he still says smart stuff! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pod…

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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
I wrote this on 2 big underlying conditions to the election & our larger political moment: the changing nature of the GOP and its gatekeepers, and our inability to link economic performance to political rewards or to understand economic policy performance. gai.georgetown.edu/the-government…
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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
The GOP hardliners’ preferences regularly lack votes for passage, making this dance of attempting to secure them obviously performative. Meanwhile the House can’t do as much, the Senate gains additional influence, and the already-difficult appropriations process is even harder.
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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
Republicans have a good chance of having a narrow House majority again next Congress, which begs the question of how long this dynamic lasts. Will they continue to have the weakest Speakers in generations, with all that comes with that?
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Laura Blessing@L_E_Blessing·
Speaker Johnson does a dance to pass short-term funding through the House: I’ve been thinking of it as the hardliner two-step. First take two steps to the right (6 month CR & SAVE Act, fails 9/18) - then take three steps to the (moderate) left (3 month CR, no SAVE, passes today)
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