The Hill is Alive With the Sound of Hearings

Council on Foreign Relations by Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann | Mar. 21, 2007 (News Analysis)

Elections do make a difference. The dramatic results of last November's midterm elections catapulted Democrats to majority status in both the House and the Senate and abruptly awakened the somnolent first branch of government.

In the November/December 2006 issue of Foreign Affairs, we documented and decried the collapse of congressional oversight of the executive across a range of issues, especially foreign and national security policy. The costs ... Full Story »

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by Gerardine O'Hare - Oct. 1, 2008

This is excellent journalism, and not because almost everything I have recently thought about the present Democratic party comes into it, but because it puts into ecellent language the facts. I could never have worded it as well. I had been feeling depressed because all my hopes for total changes seemed to have fallen short. Democrats are too whimpy and as the writers state "investigative oversight...has to be matched with more garden variety oversight of programs". We MUST DEMAND THIS from our elected officials.