Tag Archives: Oversight
Speaker Pelosi: President Trump threatened Democrats over administration oversight during State of the Union
House Oversight to Investigate Trump Admin’s Security-Clearance Process
The House Oversight Committee is planning an “in-depth investigation” into the processes governing the Trump administration’s granting of security clearances, the panel’s chairman announced Wednesday. In a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, Representative Elijah Cummings (D., Md.) claimed that the White House and Trump’s transition team “appear to have disregarded established procedures for safeguarding classified information” in granting unauthorized officials access to such information. Critics of the administration began to scrutinize its security-clearance process last year, after former White House staff secretary Rob Porter remained employed and retained his interim security clearance after being accused of domestic abuse by two of his former wives.
Ryan Zinke To Step Down One Day Before Dems Get Oversight Powers
Read James Comey's Testimony To The House Oversight Committee
Top House Oversight Dem: Trump should not 'stand in our way of doing our job'
Democratic Control In House Means Oversight Of Trump's Immigration Crackdown — Finally
California abuse case sparks calls for home-schooling oversight
The number of U.S. children educated at home has doubled to about 1.7 million, or 3 percent of the nation’s school-age population, from 1999, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. “We would not say abuse is more common among home-schoolers, but when it does occur, there are fewer safeguards, less to stop it from spinning out of control,” said Executive Director Rachel Coleman. The organization has called for requiring annual contacts by outside officials and background checks for parents who run home schools.