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Director’s Desk
Kristin Nicholson | June 5, 2019
Dear Friends: Congressional subpoena fights and will-they-or-wont-they coverage of potential impeachment proceedings may be grabbing most of the headlines (more on that below), but there is a slew of other activity for Congress watchers to keep an eye on. The House Appropriations Committee continues to make quick work of its FY2020 funding bills, and a
Lessons In Impeachment
Laura Blessing | June 5, 2019
In politics, we often learn the lesson of the last time. When President Obama came into office, he and his advisors read Gordon Goldstein’s Lessons in Disaster, which covered mistakes made in Vietnam, to apply them to Afghanistan and Iraq. The enduring legacy of these conflicts is the power vacuum that enabled the rise
GAI in the News
GAI | May 14, 2019
Senior Fellow Laura Blessing discusses the CBO’s scoring of the President’s budget proposal, GDP forecasts, and underlying economic assumptions on the May 9th Marketplace Morning Report for NPR. Here is a link to the entire report.
GAI in the News
GAI | May 8, 2019
Senior Fellow Mark Harkins discusses the current dust up between House Democrats and the President regarding subpoenas and oversight. Here is the entire article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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