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Document: New York Prosecutors Charge Man for Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar
On Apr. 4, prosecutors in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York charged Pat Carlineo of New York with threatening to kill Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.) in phone calls to her office. The ... -
Livestream: Attorney General Bill Bar Testifies Before House Appropriations Committee
Attorney General Bill Bar will testify before the House Committee on Appropriations on the Department of Justice FY2020 budget request. The livestream is available here and below. -
House Oversight and Judiciary Committees Authorize First Subpoenas
It's been an eventful week for checks and balances. -
Intelligence Oversight Priorities for the 116th Congress
Despite the hyper-partisanship, and even in light of corrosive calls last week for the resignation of the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), the Senate S -
A New Resource: Announcing the Brookings House Oversight Tracker
When Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January, they pledged that the transition would usher in a period of vigorous oversight of the executive branch. -
Speaker Pelosi and the Norms of Impeachment
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has now joined Gerald Ford as a House leader putting on the record an influential view of the boundaries of impeachment. In 1970, when Ford was House minority leader, he spoke from t... -
Remembering Eisenhower’s Middle East Force Resolution
On this date in 1957, President Eisenhower signed into law perhaps the most open-ended force resolution in American history. It was never directly invoked, and it remains formally on the books to this da... -
Document: Sens. Kaine and Young Introduce Bill to Revoke Iraq Force Authorizations
Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) have introduced a bill that would revoke the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for use of military force in Iraq. The bill is below. -
A Road Map for Congress to Address Domestic Terrorism
On Feb. 15, federal law enforcement arrested U.S. -
Troubling Trends in Ambassadorial Appointments: 1980 to the Present
Since the 1950s, presidents have consistently allocated roughly 30 percent of ambassadorial appointments to individuals who are not career diplomats. This practice, atypical among advanced democracies an... -
William Barr’s Remarkable Non-Commitments About the Mueller Report
“I don’t think there’ll be a report,” President Trump’s former attorney, John Dowd, recently told ABC News. “I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public, other than ‘We’re done.’... -
Livestream: Senate Intelligence Hearing on Worldwide Threats
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