Tag: Congress
Stevenson’s army, July 31
– Tata is out. Good.
– Diplomats push back at returning to offices.
– Postal Service cuts back just when it’s needed for elections. That’s one of several threats to the elections discussed in a good CFR session.
-CFIUS had increased workload in 2019. Here’s the official report.
– The USG didn’t run its pandemic playbook, as it should have.
– Intriguing idea: non-kinetic ASAT
– Back to normal: approval of Congress falls
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Stevenson’s army, July 28
– House Democrats target SecState Pompeo for leadership failures at State.
– Richard Haass of CFR blasts his China speech.
-Trump wants top send “renegade colonel” to Germany.
-Meanwhile, ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
– I have a piece in National Interest on the militarization of American foreign policy, including the effect of the NDAA.
-Adam Tooze reviews several books on China and the new world order
-Lawfare has a good piece explaining the congressional notification process for arms sales.
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Stevenson’s army, July 27
– A group of former members of Congress are due to release a report suggesting reforms of Congress. So far, only this article.
– Looks like the US Ambassador to UK needs to change some of his ways, too.
-And things could be a mess after the election, several scenarios show.
– WaPo’s Dan Balz says US global standing is poor.
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Stevenson’s army, July 13
– The Taliban launched a major attack in Northern Afghanistan.
– Congress seems to be backing off acting in response to reports of Russian bounties to the Taliban to kill US soldiers.
– China is sanctioning Sens. Cruz, Rubio and others because of their support for the Uighurs.
– The Trump WH is putting out an”oppo dump” critical of Dr. Fauci. Analysis from Dan Drezner.
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Stevenson’s army, July 12
– NYT says China is signing deals with Iran for trade and military cooperation.
– Trump discloses covert cyber attack on Russia — see WaPo and NYT followup.
-Some minor but useful congressional reforms listed.
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Stevenson’s army, July 10
– WSJ says the HHS official in charge of preparedness planning for pandemics expected a war or bioterror, not a pandemic, and thus misplanned.
– NDAA conference will face competing plans for Navy — ships or subs.
– Japan has a robust office planning for economic statecraft. [I wish we had one.] BTW, the full article, from IISS’s Strategic Comments publication, can be viewed via SAIS library.
– In Pakistan, the Army is even stronger over the civilian government now.
– In a first, House Democrats have released their Caucus rules. GOP did so years ago. Both available here.
– NYT has good summary of Esper-Milley hearing.
– A law prof has found proof of legislative logrolling that undermines claims of Originalist lawyers that Congress endorsed a Unitary Executive in 1789.
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