Many of the steps in the guide may be of interest to Senators and their staff who are considering forming an informal Member group in the Senate. 展开 关键词: Congress, Congressional committees, Members of Congress, Congressional committee membership ...
Political scientist Morris Fiorina sums up this approach as follows:qu]The federal agencies exist in a symbiotic relationship with the congressional committees and subcommittees to which they report. Of course, not everything an agency does is of concern to its set of relevant members. It ...
“Because the committees have the transcripts of the special counsel’s interviews, the needs the committees have articulated for the recordings are plainly insufficient to overcome a privilege claim grounded in these important separation of powers concerns,” according to the memo. “The audio recordi...
“We strongly recommend that a central personnel agency continue to exist, and that organization is an independent, enterprise-wide human capital agency and a steward of the merit system principles,” said Terry Gerton, president and CEO of NAPA, said at a press briefing on the report....
Louise Slaughter passed away today at the age of 88. She was a remarkable woman, a fighter, and a force of nature. As the first woman to chair the Rules Committee (one of two most important committees in the House), she also made history. ...
While this claim is true in some circumstances, it ignores the friendly relations that exist between these two branches of government鈥攔elations that may be far more typical than scholars suspect. This Article undertakes a comprehensive study of congressional responses to Supreme Court tax cases ...
Today House Republicans affirmed that rather than take up the flawed legislation rushed through the Senate, House committees will continue their work on a step-by-step, common-sense approach to fixing what has long been a broken system. The American people want our border secured, our laws enfo...
Today, four correspondents’ committees exist to oversee the seven congressional press galleries: one for the House and Senate daily press galleries; one for the House and Senate periodical press galleries; one for the House and Senate radio/television galleries; and one for the Senate press photog...
In seeking to be fair to Members, and not to prejudice the consideration of an allegation, the House and Senate ethics committees have operated quietly over the years. They often have been perceived, however, to be slow or reluctant to investigate and discipline colleagues and have been criticiz...
However, concerns exist that VA's rating schedule--the criteria used to assign degree of work disability--is not consistent with changes in medicine and the labor market. Due in part to these types of challenges, GAO designated federal disability programs as high risk. Consequently, GAO ...