Tag: Congress
Stevenson’s army, November 23
– Cook Political Report says House in 118th Congress will be 222 R to 213 D. Every vote counts and every Congressional District counts.
– Big fight looms over spending.
– I agree with Paul Pillar’s analysis of negotiations over Ukraine.
– German analyst recaps earlier negotiations.
– George Packer dumps on American foreign policy realists and restrainers
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Stevenson’s army, November 22
Iran team captain Ehsan Hajsafi Sunday:
– Erdogan may attack in Syria.
– Russia may have false flag attack in Belarus.
– WSJ says US is pressing allies on Russia sanctions.
– There is an intelligence authorization bill this year. More details here.
– Fred Kaplan analyzes nuclear weapons programs.
– Legistorm reports on privately funded congressional overseas travel.
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Stevenson’s army, November 17
NYT has neat graphic showing where each party gained and lost seats.
House GOP began revising rules.
Sen. Schumer must have convinced Sen. Feinstein to step aside, for Sen. Murray will become president pro tempore.
WSJ says Iranian drones use US parts.
Likely speaker McCarthy wants delay in NDAA consideration.
New SIGAR report lists failure of Afghan government and US policies.
Corrected link: Russia sanctions have long term damage.
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Stevenson’s army, November 16
Both my internet service and I have been out of commission the last few days, so I’ve missed lots of Stevenson’s army and other things. I’ll try to keep up now:
– Polish deaths blamed on errant Ukrainian air defense missile.
-New Congress will have almost 100 military veterans.
– Congressional commission on China urges trade policies. It’s new annual report is here.
– GAO hits US military aircraft readiness.
-Chicago prof says Russia sanctions are doing long term damage.
– Russia lost UN GA vote on Ukraine.
– Lawfare argues for repealing 2002 AUMF.
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Stevenson’s army, November 9
The House still is likely to turn Republican by a small margin, but the Senate outcome depends on several close races. WSJ has good graphic on remaining votes.
Here’s AP’s call list.
Zelensky seems to accede to US urging to indicate willingness for peace talks.
SkyNews tells how Russia pays Iran for weapons.
Prof. Gavin says US is bridging the gap between academics and policymakers.
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Stevenson’s army, November 2
– NYT says Russian military [not in Putin presence] discussed use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
– WSJ says Saudis warn of Iranian attack.
– AP says even internal Chinese reports are censored.
– WaPo notes problems monitoring Ukraine use of US weapons. Here’s the official plan.
– RollCall says Dems may use reconciliation to raise debt limit.
My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I republish here, with occasional videos of my choice. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).
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