Last Thursday the House of Representatives approved, alnog party lines, the rules for impeachment hearings and the chair of the House Select Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), announced that public hearings would began next Wednesday, November 13. In anticipation of any antics that the Republican members might have to derail the process, Rep. Schiff …
Tag: House Rules
Feb 12 2018
The Russian Connection: House Rules
Last week Donald Trump released the un-redacted Nunes Memo over the objections of the FBI and Department of Justice. On Friday he refused to allow the release of 10 page Democratic response which had been vetted by the DOJ and FBi, probably because it would make Trump and Nunes look like the fools they are. …
Jan 11 2011
Season 2 Premiere: Transparency Provisions of the New House Rules
cross-posted from Main Street Insider
We’re back with the Season 2 Premiere of 90 Second Summaries! This season will have double the suspense, double the hilarity, and it just might move you to tears… Okay, not really. Our 90 Second Summaries will be what they always were, a clean and simple set of legislative summaries designed to help folks on Main Street keep up.
To kick off the new season, we are going to roll out a couple summaries of the more interesting provisions of the new Adopting Rules Package of the 112th Congress (then we will take a couple weeks off to evaluate new legislation before us). This week, we are looking at the transparency provisions of the new rules. These provisions are important to understand, if only because it will require pressure to ensure that they are followed properly. Without further ado, we present Season 2, Episode 1: