congressional oversight

With newspapers dying, who will keep an eye on the travel industry?

by Charlie Leocha on March 4, 2009

Two stories caught my eye this weekend: one about the closing of the Rocky Mountain News and another about the death of a House resolution calling for an ethics committee inquiry into the relationship between campaign contributions and earmarks. Newspapers, once the guardian and voice of the public, are dying. Who will keep an eye the travel industry?

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How many congressional committees can dance on DHS?

by Charlie Leocha on August 11, 2008

A startling article buried in Government Executive shines a bright light on one of the major problems facing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is just as if Gulliver was alive and struggling in Lilliput tied down by a thousand threads of swarming Lilliputians.

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