White House orders agencies to ignore Democrats’ oversight requests

[KingOrfeo]

Politico:

The White House is telling federal agencies to blow off Democratic lawmakers' oversight requests, as Republicans fear the information could be weaponized against President Donald Trump.

At meetings with top officials for various government departments this spring, Uttam Dhillon, a White House lawyer, told agencies not to cooperate with such requests from Democrats, according to Republican sources inside and outside the administration.

It appears to be a formalization of a practice that had already taken hold, as Democrats have complained that their oversight letters requesting information from agencies have gone unanswered since January, and the Trump administration has not yet explained the rationale.

The declaration amounts to a new level of partisanship in Washington, where the president and his administration already feels besieged by media reports and attacks from Democrats. The idea, Republicans said, is to choke off the Democratic congressional minorities from gaining new information that could be used to attack the president.

What are they so afraid of?!

 

[james_1957]

Obama administration sets new record for withholding FOIA requests

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[KingOrfeo]

We're not talking about FOIA requests, we're talking about requests for information from Congresscritters on agency oversight committees, which have generally been routinely complied with in the past.

 

[james_1957]

The Obama administration is ignoring ACA document subpoenas, GOP says

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[about_average]

Two wrongs always make a right, apparently.

 

[perturbed]

Two wrongs always make a right, apparently.

childish


what you really meant was

Obama=GOD

Trump=EVIL

 

[water505]

Oreo is the King of Links and the Prince of C&P.

He really thinks people are impressed and actually read his shit.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Oreo is the King of Links and the Prince of C&P.

He really thinks people are impressed and actually read his shit.

I think they should. The articles I post matter. The one in this thread certainly does.

 

[water505]

I think they should. The articles I post matter. The one in this thread certainly does.

Yeah, we know you think we should.

Self-important windbag.

Read about yourself here.

 

[Conager]

I think they should. The articles I post matter. The one in this thread certainly does.

Why does it "matter" other than to Democrats?

they don't have the votes to bring anything up before committee. So the only option they have is grandstanding why shouldn't they be denied that?

 

[Conager]

childish


what you really meant was

Obama=GOD

Trump=EVIL

You left off that but bush is always appropriate ...but Obama is never appropriate

 

[Hashtag47]

We're not talking about FOIA requests, we're talking about requests for information from Congresscritters on agency oversight committees, which have generally been routinely complied with in the past.

Don't confuse connie with facts, he still hasn't recovered from seeing a black man in the white house.

 

[james_1957]

Trump's solution to pesky Congressional Democrats? Ignore them

The White House says that under the law, it only has to respond to records requests that come from committee chairmen—who all happen to be Republicans. Democrats say it amounts to a ‘gag order.’

In early 2011, a Republican senator wrote to the Obama administration asking for a response to claims by a whistleblower that firearms lost in a sting operation gone awry had been used in the murder of a federal border patrol agent named Brian Terry.

The GOP was in the minority then, and the senator, Charles Grassley of Iowa, controlled no committee nor had any power to compel the Obama administration to respond. But the Department of Justice replied to him anyway, writing a letter that denied the whistleblower’s claim. The letter turned out to be false, later to be formally retracted by the Justice Department, and the “gun-walking” operation known as Fast and Furious spiraled into a scandal for the Obama administration that led Republicans and more than a dozen Democrats in the House to cite former Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress.

Under a policy adopted by the Trump administration, the letter that catapulted Fast and Furious from mere headache to political nightmare likely would never have been sent. The White House has told federal departments and agencies that it will adhere to a stricter definition of congressional oversight than did the Obama administration. Government officials are now under no obligation to respond to requests for information and documents that do not come from committee chairmen, who, because of the GOP’s majorities in both chambers of Congress, are all Republicans. That means departments and agencies can essentially ignore requests from Democrats, which they have already done in more than 200 instances over President Trump’s first four months in office, according to a tally kept by party leaders.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...y-congressional-democrats-ignore-them/529050/

 

[Hard_Rom]

But... but... Clinton/Obama/Liberals...!

 

[james_1957]

Basic goals for a person who stutters

But... but... Clinton/Obama/Liberals...!

I hope this helps...

I can’t tell you how to stop stuttering, which is what you would like. But there are ways that you can stutter more easily, which sound better and make you more comfortable with your speech, and make a better impression on your listener. Listeners react to the way you appear to be reacting to yourself. If you seem to be tense, panicky, and out of control, they will also feel tense, to which you react by becoming more tense and hurried yourself. It’s a circular process that you can learn to control.

The basic idea is to do all of your stuttering with less struggle, tension, and panic. This doesn’t mean to talk more slowly in an effort to avoid all stuttering. Go ahead and speak at your normal rate, but when you feel that you are about to block on a word, slow down at that point and take your time saying the feared word. Don’t give up your effort to say the word, but try to stutter easily and slowly. Relax and let go: keep your lips, tongue and jaw moving gently without jamming. Don’t panic. Take all the time you need. Concentrate on confidence and sense of control. Keep moving forward but move slowly and positively. Resist any feeling of hurry or pressure. At some instant you will know that you are over the hump. Simply finish that word and keep talking along at your usual rate until you start to tense up again for another feared word. Then instantly shift into slow motion again. Many stutterers who originally had very tense, complex patterns of stuttering have worked themselves down to this easy, simple, slow stuttering with little tension or interruption in their speech.

http://www.stutteringhelp.org/content/basic-goals-person-who-stutters

 

[KingOrfeo]

Betsy DeVos Blames 'Snail Mail' for Unanswered Requests From Democrats.

 

[Conager]

Great news!

Resist the "Resistence."

Maybe we can also organize some people in black masks to go bikelock Rambo on some of those jackbooted, fascist "Antifas."

 

[KingOrfeo]

Maybe we can also organize some people in black masks to go bikelock Rambo on some of those jackbooted, fascist "Antifas."

Are you volunteering to wear the mask and swing the lock?