If you hear the 118th Congress described as a bunch of slackers, you’re not getting the whole story.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), right, leaves the U.S. Capitol after the House voted to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on February 13, 2024 in Washington, DC.
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With its impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the House exercised its oversight power. How can you tell if it was a legitimate use of that power?
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.
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Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
Congressional staffers stand beneath a monitor showing House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., in a hearing, July 19, 2023.
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The GOP in the House and Senate is doing lots of investigations; Democrats did the same in the past. A scholar of congressional oversight asks: When are investigations justified?
The U.S. Capitol, where on May 31, 2023, the House passed a debt limit deal on a bipartisan vote.
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The news media spent a lot of time reporting on how much progressive Democrats and conservative Republicans didn’t like the debt ceiling deal. But centrists had enough votes to pass it in the House.