The Democratic-Party-controlled House of Representatives has been using its subpoena powers 7-by-24 to paralyze a Republican presidency. What has the Republican Senate been doing with its equivalent subpoena powers? Is it investigating malfeasance and possible criminal activities among holdovers from previous Democratic administrations embedded in the IRS, FBI, and CIA? Is it approving crucial nominees in a timely manner, such as President Trump’s nominee to head the Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack?
One can answer those questions in a two-letter word: no.
This article roasts the Republican Senate for being AWOL in the Oversight Wars:
Democrats will not stop harassing the administration….Republicans have to find ways to make Democrats feel the pain of their actions, using the powers available to them. The era of legislative battles is seemingly over; the Oversight War has begun. And the Republican Senate must begin to fight.
This one roasts the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for leaving the key instrument of US soft power — the Agency for Global Media (USAGM) — leaderless at a time when countering disinformation from authoritarian governments hostile to the US has never been so important. The USAGM is responsible for supervising the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, Radio Free Asia, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. The article reports that
Trump nominated documentary filmmaker Michael Pack to head the USAGM in June 2018, and his nomination, along with others, has been languishing ever since as Democrats and anti-Trump Republican forces on Capitol Hill have blocked it.
The Chinese people, in particular, are in great need of information regarding the freedom struggle underway in Hong Kong against China’s Communist Party and the Chinese CP leader Xi Jinping’s war-crimes-level imprisonment of over a million Moslems in Xinjiang in concentration camps. The Chinese CP is doing everything it can to keep the Chinese population ignorant of what is happening in the wider world as well as in China itself. They are playing hardball against attempts by the US to inform the Chinese people. Under such circumstances, the US cannot afford a leaderless USAGM.
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