CMC Congress Course: Administration, Oversight, and the Courts

ABOUT THIS BLOG

I shall post videos, graphs, news stories, and other material there. We shall use some of this material in class, and you may review the rest at your convenience. You will all receive invitations to post to the blog. (Please let me know if you do not get such an invitation.) I encourage you to use the blog in these ways:

To post questions or comments about the readings before we discuss them in class;
To follow up on class discussions with additional comments or questions.
To post relevant news items or videos.

There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Administration, Oversight, and the Courts

NAIL: Nominations, Appropriations, Investigations, Legislation

Nominations

Appropriations

Limitation riders and the case of ACA

Investigation and Oversight

Legislation: Executive Branch Organization and Laws on Reporting

Inspectors General (POTUS WAS DISPLEASED!)
Reporting requirements
The old legislative veto and the Congressional Review Act. Democrats do not like it now, but will like it more if they get unified control.
Congress "organizes" the executive:
-- The "organization" of DHS.

DNI

intelligence community

26 USC 6103

Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request, except that any return or return information which can be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer shall be furnished to such committee only when sitting in closed executive session unless such taxpayer otherwise consents in writing to such disclosure.

Subpoenas and Contempt of Congress