Politics: from "poly", meaning "many", and "ticks", being small bloodsucking creatures.
This is a good article on how to stay outraged / politically active without losing one's mind (or being shamed into stopping entirely).
This page seems to have the daily list of what happened in the House and the Senate.
Neither Senator Elizabeth Warren nor Senator Ed Markey have a reasonable email newsletter, but Representative Mike Capuano (website) does. I subscribed to it.
There is a list of Presidential executive orders here on Wikipedia.
Summary of the above, by the way: Executive orders only apply to federal agencies, whereas legislation by Congress can apply to citizens. And there are two recourses to bad executive orders: Congress amending the law, and judicial review by the supreme court. Both take time.
There are several bills in congress now that seek to check executive power. HR26/SR21 Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2017; S.177 - A bill to provide for congressional review of the imposition of duties and other trade measures by the executive branch, and for other purposes; HCR8 Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch. I'll be researching those.
If this sounds like I'm still a mewling newbie, in the phase of learning to gather information, you're right. What I have actually done this week: paid for 6 months of digital access to the Wall Street Journal (I was already a paying subscriber to The Atlantic). Joined Twitter specifically so that I could subscribe to my members of Congress: @SenWarren, @RepMikeCapuano, @SenMarkey. Subscribed to that newsletter. Did my reading about executive orders.
This page seems to have the daily list of what happened in the House and the Senate.
Neither Senator Elizabeth Warren nor Senator Ed Markey have a reasonable email newsletter, but Representative Mike Capuano (website) does. I subscribed to it.
There is a list of Presidential executive orders here on Wikipedia.
Summary of the above, by the way: Executive orders only apply to federal agencies, whereas legislation by Congress can apply to citizens. And there are two recourses to bad executive orders: Congress amending the law, and judicial review by the supreme court. Both take time.
There are several bills in congress now that seek to check executive power. HR26/SR21 Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2017; S.177 - A bill to provide for congressional review of the imposition of duties and other trade measures by the executive branch, and for other purposes; HCR8 Providing for a joint session of Congress to receive a presentation from the Comptroller General of the United States regarding the audited financial statement of the executive branch. I'll be researching those.
If this sounds like I'm still a mewling newbie, in the phase of learning to gather information, you're right. What I have actually done this week: paid for 6 months of digital access to the Wall Street Journal (I was already a paying subscriber to The Atlantic). Joined Twitter specifically so that I could subscribe to my members of Congress: @SenWarren, @RepMikeCapuano, @SenMarkey. Subscribed to that newsletter. Did my reading about executive orders.