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On Wednesday, Republican Rep. James Comer used his position as chair of the House Oversight Committee to hold a hearing with the ludicrous title “The Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Policymaking Efforts to Undermine U.S. Immigration Law.”...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jan 18, 2024 at 06:23 AM PST
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The Republican-led Oversight Committee descended into chaos after Hunter Biden made an appearance on Wednesday. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is generally the catalyst for chaos, decided she ...
by Walter Einenkel
187 comments
on Wed Jan 10, 2024 at 10:38 AM PST
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What do Chief Justice John Roberts, Israeli politician Bibi Netanyahu, Republican legislators who want Independent State Legislatures, and bankers all want? They do not wish to have any checks and balances. Bibi Netanyahu and his political party do not...
by Thomas Hailey Kloecker
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on Wed Mar 22, 2023 at 07:32 AM PDT
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The slim Republican majority in the House has given the do-nothing party of billionaire donors one thing they can do: spin the wheels of House oversight committees in political theater circles. Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky is doing his best...
by Walter Einenkel
46 comments
on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 06:41 PM PST
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is still serving on House committees such as the Overisght and Accountability Committee that met on Feb. 1 to discuss Federal Pandemic Spending. The plan is to look into how federal money was spent, wasted, and used for...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 01, 2023 at 11:17 AM PST
with 214 Recommends
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Republicans have won the House of Representatives. A sad fact, but a fact nonetheless. Their margin of error is smaller than Donald Trump’s hands, so every regular piece of the Nation’s business is going to go down to the wire. Not to jump too far...
by cultjake
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on Thu Nov 17, 2022 at 12:08 PM PST
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Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee and Environment Subcommittee held a hearing on Big Oil’s climate pledges, and whether they were in any way adequate, meaningful, honest, or well-intentioned — or just the latest move in a decades-long...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 06:29 AM PST
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by Mark Fiore
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on Fri Nov 19, 2021 at 05:00 AM PST
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He incited an insurrection but former President Donald Trump, in his ongoing bid to keep records sought by the Jan. 6 committee out of investigators’ hands, argued Tuesday that their release would irreparably harm the powers of the presidency and the...
by Brandi Buchman
118 comments
on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM PST
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In at least nine instances, Donald Trump and his top White House officials aggressively combatted key oversight investigations that government watchdogs were attempting to conduct within the Trump administration, according to reporting by the...
by Kerry Eleveld
161 comments
on Tue Mar 23, 2021 at 10:01 AM PDT
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Elizabeth Warren and her allies are poised to execute a quiet revolution in the Biden administration Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts may have been passed over for Treasury Department in the Biden administration, but a network of her prominently placed protégés are poised to execute a quiet revolution in how the federal government approaches...
by Kerry Eleveld
159 comments
on Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 07:58 AM PDT
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It now appears that VP Pence and what's left of Trump's cabinet have little interest in removing Trump from power by invoking the 25th Amendment. And while support for a second impeachment is growing among Congressional Democrats, there does not (yet)...
by monster
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on Fri Jan 08, 2021 at 02:16 PM PST
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The airline industry began begging for bailout money the moment it became clear that our country would need to put together a package to help Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Right away, one of the problems that most Democratic representatives...
by Walter Einenkel
50 comments
on Fri Oct 16, 2020 at 11:44 AM PDT
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There is now only one week left now to nominate legislators for the Carl Levin Award for Effective Oversight. The deadline is November 1. From the Levin Center at the Wayne State University Law School: The Levin Center at Wayne Law is seeking...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Sun Oct 25, 2020 at 07:47 PM PDT
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We have it. We just don’t use it. The overriding problem is that most of us don’t know that we have it. Our Founding Fathers gave us the oversight opportunity. If we don’t like what we see, we should take steps to make appropriate...
by spade1951
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on Tue Sep 08, 2020 at 04:41 AM PDT
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I want to know why Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Chair of @OversightDems isn’t holding hearings right now with Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy? She needs to be grilling him on what the hell he is doing. Trump needs a lot of help to sow doubt...
by TexDem
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on Fri Jul 31, 2020 at 07:30 AM PDT
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Harper’s Magazine published a “Letter on Justice and Open Debate” recently with over 150 signatories. A great deal of gnashing of teeth later, I am struck by something: This is the same argument made regarding the police and oversight of their...
by Rrhain
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on Thu Jul 09, 2020 at 02:21 PM PDT
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The Trump administration is determined to steal everything it can for the rich in the COVID-19 crisis, and do it in secret. Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin decided that information about which businesses are getting taxpayer-funded loans...
by Joan McCarter
81 comments
on Mon Jun 15, 2020 at 12:38 PM PDT
with 133 Recommends
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Last Sunday the President of the United States of America disclosed that “domestic terrorists” were operating within our borders. Following, the President of the United States of America designated an American organization as a “Terrorist...
by Kemph2020
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on Fri Jun 05, 2020 at 08:43 AM PDT
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Establishing an appropriate balance of power in our government is not a simple process. The Founders, brilliant educated men, originally created government ruled by the Articles of Confederation. They soon found that the flaws in that system were very...
by spade1951
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on Sun May 10, 2020 at 07:33 AM PDT
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- And one I have experienced myself, personally. In fact, it forced my early retirement because I couldn’t stay awake at meetings. Trump has been observed to nod off during his Manhattan trial. Some have suggested that he may be deprived of drugs that he...159 comments 245 Recs
- A new Axios article details something that I’ve been thinking about for some time now: what a crazy excellent job Hakeem Jeffries has been doing as the House minority leader. In fact, Axios points out how Jeffries has emerged as Congress’ Shadow...69 comments 305 Recs
- Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of putting our thumbs out a city police car stopped and...116 comments 248 Recs
- In 1927, two US Army Air Corps Majors, Henry "Hap" Arnold and Carl Spaatz, founded an airline to fly passengers and mail between Key West and Havana. The company they ambitiously called Pan American Airways lived up to its name and more. Pan Am became...66 comments 105 Recs
- So maybe they knew this ahead of time, had some inkling, or were blindsided completely, one thing we now know is true… Stories about Rubio having a secret love child and Cruz affairs with porn stars came directly from Trump. Of course they did. How...64 comments 209 Recs
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