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Know when to hold 'em.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the editor)
Kate O'Beirne's "Strangle Holds" (August 29) quotes an unnamed "frustrated administration official" as saying, "For the Senate to conduct business as usual with the nation at war ... is so outrageous. They do not see the nation at war; that's a real difference between this president and Congress."
The reasons I placed a hold on Alice Fisher's nomination to be head of the Department of Justice's criminal division have everything to do with making sure that the executive branch does not go on conducting business as usual. Like it or not, the sad truth is that when letters from senators get ignored or dismissed, a hold is sometimes the only effective way to get the executive branch to focus on important issues. In this case the important issue impacted directly on terrorism-related activity on U.S. soil. Mrs. O'Beirne did not bother to explain the reasons for my hold, nor did she call or write to me for an explanation.
The Department of Justice was systematically blocking Congress's ability to gather information on a number of FBI oversight issues, including a case where the Bureau delayed for four months a wiretap request on an individual who was communicating with a designated terrorist. I had credible information that the reason for this delay stemmed from a turf battle with another federal agency--in other words, ...
- Fitzgerald Presses GAO to Improve Financial Oversight of Executive Branch...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 13, 2004 700+ words
...to improve financial oversight of Executive Branch entities. In a letter to GAO Comptroller...Management, expressed concern that many Executive Branch entities are not subject to rigorous...financial waste, fraud, and abuse in Executive Branch entities is much higher than current...
- Executive branch usurpation of power: corporations and capital...
- Magazine article from: Yale Law Journal Macey, Jonathan R. July 1, 2006 700+ words
...This Symposium announces that the executive branch is "the most accessible, politically...to certain structural advantages, executive branch agencies are better situated to respond...policy). Unlike the judiciary, executive branch agencies can take unilateral action...
- Financial Audits: The Vast Majority of Executive Branch Entities Included in...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Reform Act of 1994, requires 24 major executive branch departments and agencies to prepare...government, Congress asked us to identify executive branch entities that are not subject to the...certain budget information related to executive branch entities covered by the ATD Act that...
- Government Reinvention Revisited.(National Partnership for Reinventing...
- Magazine article from: The Public Manager MOE, RONALD C. September 22, 2000 700+ words
...NPR) and its efforts to reform executive branch management. The "reinvention" of the executive branch began in late 1993 and is now completing...fundamentally alter the character of the executive branch and the executive and congressional...
- Empowering the executive branch: an issue that must not be overlooked regarding...
- Magazine article from: The New American Eddlem, Thomas R. October 31, 2005 700+ words
...authority to hold terrorist suspects...which gave the executive branch new powers of...torture by the executive branch and establish...United States and hold them indefinitely...the agenda of executive branch empowerment...
- Overseeing the executive branch.(OPINION)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 26, 2007 700+ words
...the creation of a board within the executive branch to ensure that the civil-liberties...implementation of laws, regulations, and executive branch policies related to efforts to protect...transparency to those activities of the executive branch that impinge on privacy and civil...
- EDITORIAL: Cheney's dodge: Vice president is off-base in arguing his office is...
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) June 26, 2007 700+ words
...rules that apply to all other parts of the executive branch. Cheney's executive-branch role is clearly the predominant one and...oversight of classified information handled by executive-branch agencies, Cheney argues that he is not...
- The Other Elites: Women, Politics, and Power in the Executive Branch.
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Carroll, Susan J. September 1, 1998 700+ words
...study of women in the executive branch in both a theoretical...power relations in the executive branch. Her analysis helps...are most likely to hold and the obstacles they...to confront in the executive branch. Piper A. Hodson...
