With gas and fuel costs rising for most of 2022, members of Congress are looking to take action against oil-producing countries they accuse of artificially raising the price of oil. The bipartisan No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC) would specifically target the group of countries in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which includes Russia and Saudi Arabia. The bill would adjust U.S. antitrust law to allow the U.S. attorney general to bring lawsuits against OPEC countries and their state-owned oil companies for price fixing, which is illegal in the U.S. In October, OPEC announced it…

Congress moved to strengthen the U.S. electoral process in fall 2022 when the House passed the Presidential Election Reform Act, which would reform the law that governs how states and voters choose the president and vice president every four years. Written in 1887, the Electoral Count Act (ECA) is considered by many to be so complex and arcane that it leaves room for ambiguity, something that former President Donald Trump and his supporters tried to exploit in their attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. According to the ECA, the Electoral College meets in states across the country on the…