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A brief history of congressional oversight, from Revolutionary War financing to Pam Bondi

Routine congressional oversight hearings usually don’t make headlines. Historically, these often low-key events have been the sorts of things you catch only on C-SPAN – procedural, polite and largely ignored outside the Beltway.

The Conversation

Breaking news: Speakers raise a lot of money - Roll Call

Speaker Mike Johnson’s record-setting fundraising haul for the second quarter shows it’s time for a Beltway tradition to be laid to rest.

Roll Call

From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: Big AI is going full Beltway

In Washington’s new AI universe, national security and corporate AI ambitions are fusing—reshaping policy, procurement, and the global balance of power.

Fortune

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Trump's immunity arguments and the experiences of the justices who might support it

Five of the six conservatives spent much of their lives in the Beltway, working in the White House and Justice Department, seeing their administrations as targets of unfair harassment by Democrats.

WEKU

‘The Big Deal with Errol Louis’ Tackles Politics Nationwide, and Debuts March 1

Spectrum News program offers a look at what’s going on beyond the Beltway

Multichannel News

Editorial: The bad news just keeps coming for the FBI

Politicians and activists reacted with dismay last week upon the news that the FBI illegally tapped into foreign intelligence data looking for dirt on U.S. citizens. But given this news emerged just days after the release of the Durham report, which fingered the FBI as knee-deep in the bogus Russian…

Tribune News Service

Indictment would be unlikely to divert Trump from campaign to courthouse

WASHINGTON — Since former President Donald Trump predicted the Manhattan district attorney would indict him earlier this week on charges stemming from hush money payments he allegedly paid a porn star to cover up an affair, the 3D chess players among the Beltway’s punditry have breathlessly debated whether this would…

Tribune News Service

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Former White House official Dana Hyde identified as passenger killed after jet turbulence

A passenger who died after a private jet hit turbulence as it traveled over the New England area has been identified as Dana Hyde, a prominent Beltway lawyer and White House official who served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations, as well as on the 9/11 Commission.

Tribune News Service

Media: Quit coddling the toxic GOP

Between blaming Democrats for MAGA Republicans and celebrating Trump's babysitter, media keeps coddling GOP

Salon

GOP outsider offers Beltway donors 30-minute sitdowns - Roll Call

Republican Joe Kent, who won a Washington primary railing against the D.C. establishment, is seeking contributions from Capitol Hill insiders.

Roll Call

Big tech fights with the Beltway over the meaning of "competition"

Where Washington sees entrenched power, tech's leaders see threats and danger everywhere.

Axios

Biden rally hit hard against GOP, but real midterm effect will come on the road

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden cast the 2022 elections at a heavily publicized rally just outside the Beltway this week as a choice between Democrats who are trying to fix roads and bring down health care costs and extreme Republicans pushing “semi-fascism” and bent on “destroying America.”

Tribune News Service

For chips and budget packages, Democrats face choices

Much of official Washington and interested observers outside the Beltway have been attempting to parse Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s bombshell last Thursday that appeared to drive a stake into bipartisan talks to pass a package of domestic semiconductor manufacturing incentives this summer.

Tribune News Service

Convoy leader tells truckers to ‘flood 911’ with calls after complaints of rude Beltway drivers

‘Birds are flying everywhere,’ one of the truckers complains

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DC trucker ‘People’s Convoy’ cancels fourth day of Beltway drive protest due to rain

The truckers took credit for coronavirus restriction rollbacks that were announced long before the protest began

The Independent UK

DC truckers insist they have ‘millions’ of supporters at meeting only attended by two lawmakers

‘We’re gonna keep looping the Beltway until we were heard. That hasn’t changed anything,’ organiser says

The Independent UK

DC ‘freedom convoy’ gets defeated by regular traffic for second day in a row

Some vehicles of convoy broke down while others were separated from each other

Tribune News Service

Trucker convoy returns to Washington Beltway in COVID protest

WASHINGTON — A fleet of truckers protesting the government’s response to COVID-19 and other grievances returned to the Capital Beltway on Monday, ringing Washington to draw attention to their cause.

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The Independent UK

What is the secret group funding the US truckers?

The group funding the truckers has raised more than $500,000 for the convoy

The Independent UK

What is the secret group funding the US truckers?

The group funding the truckers has raised more than $500,000 for the convoy

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