As part of the Miller Center's Presidency Project, the Remodeling Congress Conference aims to move the needle on congressional reform by bringing together key stakeholders

On October 15–16, 2026, scholars, practitioners, journalists, and engaged citizens will discuss pragmatic, nonpartisan solutions where the presidency and Congress overlap

Read more about the distinguished group of conference participants

Watch "Congress in history," the opening conversation of the Miller Center's Presidency Project conference on reforming Congress

Watch four expert discussions: "Reforming budget and appropriations," "Reforming oversight," "Reforming representation and elections," and the closing panel, "Reflections and pathways forward"

Former White House directors of legislative affairs discuss bipartisan best practices to clarify shared responsibilities between the legislative and executive branches with a panel of Miller Center experts and Mike Emanuel, chief Washington correspondent at Fox News

A former OMB director discusses the 'power of the purse,' federal funding implementation, and executive-legislative relations in a panel discussion moderated by PBS correspondent John Yang

William Antholis moderates an expert panel exploring how presidents, Congress, and the courts have shaped, and at times have eroded, the boundaries of emergency authority

William Galston, Molly Reynolds, and Philip Wallach examine partisan dysfunction in a Miller Center event moderated by Sidney Milkis

Problems in Congress predate AI, and so do ways to fix them—some of the best ideas focus on people, explains SoRelle Gaynor in her upcoming book on the modernization of Congress

Sidney Milkis writes that it's time for reforms that would revive Congress as a co-equal branch of government

The expanding use of presidential emergency powers is an effect of declining public faith in core democratic institutions, warns Allan Stam