Congress, Executive, Bureaucracy II

For Tuesday, Davidson, ch. 12

Tariffs

DOGE

Hollywood and history: Strauss and confirmation hearings.

Legislation: Executive Branch Organization and Laws on Reporting

• Inspectors General  (Trump firings)
• Reporting requirements
• The old legislative veto and the Congressional Review Act.  See Davidson, p. 318
• Congress "organizes" the executive:
  --  The "organization" of DHS.
-- DNI and the intelligence community

• The definitive encyclopedia article!
• Inherent contempt
• Civil contempt 
• Criminal contempt

• Speeches and filibusters
• Writings -- Senator Biden and the War Power
• Electronic communications (e.g., tweets)
• Demonstrations & Photo Ops
• Interviews  -- Using Fox to reach POTUS
• Hearings (esp. Investigative Hearings)

Key hearings

• Hiss-Chambers
• McCarthy
• Kefauver (and the fictional version)
• Vietnam hearings
• Senate Watergate hearings (the reveal at 10:30)
• Iran-Contra hearings (4:20)
• J6